Debian/Raspberry Pi

Download

Rishabh Thaney has made builds for Raspberry Pi using Debian;

• https://people.sugarlabs.org/rishabh/,

See also:

• GSoC 2017 Project Ideas by Sugar Labs,
• GSoC 2017 Proposal by Rishabh, and;
• GSoC 2017 Blog by Rishabh.

Testing

Starts at color gender age home view as user "pi", wireless works; showing ad-hoc and wireless Access points.

Home View (F3 key) screenshot:

Does not auto-mount an inserted USB.

Reproducing

This was reproduced on Debian stretch platform which was set up in an schroot shell on Ubuntu.

Setup Schroot

Set up a schroot environment like this:

• Install the schroot and debootstrap packages,

sudo apt install schroot debootstrap

• Create the stretch filesystem,

sudo mkdir -p /srv/chroot/stretch
sudo debootstrap stretch /srv/chroot/stretch

• Make a file /etc/schroot/chroot.d/stretch,

[stretch]
type=directory
personality=linux
directory=/srv/chroot/stretch

• Log into your schroot shell from the terminal,

sudo schroot -c stretch

See https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot for alternate methods.

Setup Builder

Setup the builder within the schroot shell like this;

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sugarlabs/rpi23-gen-image

• Install dependencies by going through the README.md file and executing the commands described,

Run Builder

• Change your directory to the cloned repo and run this command to start the building process:

sh rpi23-gen-image.sh

This takes some time as the scripts start downloading and configuring packages to build an image.

• Once the process is complete in the terminal, navigate to this directory:

~/rpi23-gen-image/images/stretch

to find the image that was built.

Some changes have been made to the original repo: https://github.com/drtyhlpr/rpi23-gen-image which can be viewed in the commit history.

Adding the automatic login feature

[ Update(24/08/17): Automatic login feature has been made reproducible in the image builder's repo]

• While the image is building, navigate to the following directory:

~/rpi23-gen-image/images/stretch/build/chroot/etc

and depending on the stage of the build process wait for a folder named 'lightdm' to appear.

• Then open this file with nano/gedit and with root priviledges:

~/rpi23-gen-image/images/stretch/build/chroot/etc/lightdmlightdm.conf.dpkg-new

• Add/uncomment the following lines and configure them as shown below:

autologin-session = sugar
[Seat:*]
#type=xlocal
pam-service=lightdm
pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
autologin-user=pi #(change this if you have configured a different user)
autologin-password=raspberry #(change this if you have configured a different password)
autologin-user-timeout=0
session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter

• Save the file and wait for the build process to complete.
• Boot into your image with this configuration and autologin should work fine.