RPi customization utility [Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]]

["Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, at 10:10 PM, Alan Corey wrote:

There are scripts for those, keyboard and language too.  Also WiFi country, I forget what else.  Locales is in there.

Take a look at a recent raspi-config.  I think Odroid, maybe the Pine64 bunch has a generic-ized version of that.  Armbian probably does too.  Raspi-config is just a Bash script that uses Whiptail for its menus.  Parts of it are useful on other things.  It's on Github somewhere.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas <rick.thomas@pobox.com> wrote:

 

Thanks! Alan...

So, here's what I found...

Immediately after the first boot of the SD card, as root, do the following:

#Get the raspi-config utility:

    wget https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-config/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb -P /tmp

#Install packages it needs:

    apt-get install libnewt0.52 whiptail parted triggerhappy lua5.1 alsa-utils -y

    sudo apt-get install -fy

#Install the utility itself:

    dpkg -i /tmp/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb

#And run it

    raspi-config

It will give you a bunch of customizations you might want to do.  I can personally vouch that you'll need to at least do options (1) change the root password and set up a non-root user,  (2) Configure the network, and (4) set localizations (timezone, keyboard, locale, and a few others).

The 20200601 version happens to be the latest as of this writing.  But just to be sure, you can use the tool itself (option 8) to check for and install any updated version.

Easy!

Rick