To update, I am currently running a RPi Model 2 with a new 32 GB sd micro card w/Debian Jesse. You can look here and here to see how I got this far. The problem of the moment is getting a good browser to work. I really don’t like Epiphany and would like to upgrade to Mozilla’s Iceweasel, I did a manual install which ran fine, but can’t get it to load as it throws an error saying that it can’t find all the resources it needs to run.

I’ve curated a list of resources and, as I’m learning to reach out to Communities more, I’ve done a search on the Raspberry Pi Forum at Raspberry Pi.Org for a fix. From looking on that I’ve decided to try my luck with Chromium 45 – another browser that seems promising. For those new to RPi, I strongly suggest putting some time aside to learn some terminal commands and to learn to copy and paste into the terminal. Much of the help out there gives the necessary code to get the things you need or make the changes you’d like. I attempt to install this from the forum:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.5.0-5+deb7u3_armhf.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/218525709/chromium-browser_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1097_armhf.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/218525711/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1097_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.5.0-5+deb7u3_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1097_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-browser_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1097_armhf.deb

Reboot and it’s there and it’s working! Yay!

I want to show you a screenshot of the desktop but don’t know how – back to the community – there is a command line tool (unfortunately) called ‘Scrot.’ – and I get instructions on how to use it.

Well, I’m embarrassed to say that I ran the wrong code in sudo and totally borked my Pi and have decided to reinstall the OS and start again. Frustrating, but live and learn… At least it’ll give me practice on how to reconfigure the system and luckily I have my own breadcrumbs to follow from this weblog!

Update: I was able to put everything back together again and it really didn’t take too long because I had done it before, and yes, it was good practice.