How do I download more software packages to Raspberry Pi?

Hi,

I have installed the debian6-19-04-2012.img to my SD card. Once I get everything up and running, how do I download more software packages?

Cheers

David

Former Member over 13 years ago

David,

I haven't used the debian yet, but have you tried using apt-get yet? I'm pretty sure it still uses apt-get, so as root run apt-get install [package you want installed], first you might want to run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Hope that helps.
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morgaine over 13 years ago

You can do pretty much everything you need in basic package management with just two commands, "apt-cache search" and "apt-get install".

Beyond that, see the respective man pages for a few more option flags ("man apt-cache" and "man apt-get"), and your commandline package management abilities will become really quite powerful. And finally, have a good read of "man dpkg" and you'll be ready to start training for guru status.

Alternatively, aptitude gives you the same kind of package management but with an ncurses-based semi-graphic interface on a terminal session, while synaptic provides an equivalent graphics interface under X11.

Morgaine.
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wallarug over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

I tried to use "apt-get install tightvncserver" but it returned the message:
E: Package < tightvncserver > has no installation candidate

How can I get tightvnc then?
BTW: This is only with the Wheezy image and NOT the Squeeze image.
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dharr19 over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

Thank you for your help. The only other thing I would ask is, what is the highest class SD card that Raspberry Pi can use?

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David
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wallarug over 13 years ago in reply to dharr19

I use a 8 GB class 10 SD card
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