Recommended distro for RaspberryPI

[hausheer]

Currently the tutorials recommend the Raspbian distribution (i.e. Debian Stretch) for installing SCION on RaspberryPI. I noticed that Ubuntu also offers official RaspberryPi images for Ubuntu 16 core, cf. https://developer.ubuntu.com/core/get-started/raspberry-pi-2-3 @xabarass have you heard of it and what do you think about this Ubuntu distro?

[FR4NK-W]

I think it depends on whether we consider the following a reasonable additional requirement:
'''User account prerequisites

An Ubuntu SSO account is required to create the first user on an Ubuntu Core installation.

Start by creating an Ubuntu SSO account

'''

[perrig]

Why don't we use ubuntu mate: https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/ There is no required account. Or we can have instructions for both?

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:55 PM, FR4NK-W ***@***.***> wrote: I think it depends on whether we consider the following a reasonable additional requirement: '''User account prerequisites An Ubuntu SSO account is required to create the first user on an Ubuntu Core installation. Start by creating an Ubuntu SSO account ''' — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH0lmc5eOf8IWGfR3QKjtKdLjmixsiehks5s3HcngaJpZM4Qg4iA> .

[hausheer]

Yes, it would be great to provide instructions for all flavors. Note that the Ubuntu MATE image includes the MATE Desktop Environment, but some users may want exactly that.

[xabarass]

Yes Instructions for both would be best choice, and also wouldn't be hard. For classic Ubuntu we actually don't need an account: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi#Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_.27classic.27 I was able to run scion with no problems.
On the other hand, I had some problems with Raspbian, with provided steps I wasn't able to finish build, there was a problem with installing all dependencies. Maybe on Monday I could ask somebody if I missed something.

Also I found this repo: https://github.com/TheSin-/rpi-img-builder It allows really cool way of building RPI images with different distributions. Nicely organized and easy to follow. What do you think?

[perrig]

If I recall correctly, only one Python dependency was missing, nose-cov or something like that. @fr4nk mentioned that the system works also if that dependency is simply removed. The image builder looks good!

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On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Milan Pandurov ***@***.***> wrote: Yes Instructions for both would be best choice, and also wouldn't be hard. For classic Ubuntu we actually don't need an account: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi#Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_.27classic.27 I was able to run scion with no problems. On the other hand, I had some problems with Raspbian, with provided steps I wasn't able to finish build, there was a problem with installing all dependencies. Maybe on Monday I could ask somebody if I missed something. Also I found this repo: https://github.com/TheSin-/rpi-img-builder It allows really cool way of building RPI images with different distributions. Nicely organized and easy to follow. What do you think? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH0lmUzH8p2KlGyjVa0QEAC3YEDti9h-ks5s3hY2gaJpZM4Qg4iA> .

[hausheer]

Yes, removing the python3-nose-cov dependency works!

[xabarass]

Hm, I have tried removing python3-nose-cov package that solved problem with debian packages, but then pip3 started complaining that hashes for some packages do not match with hashes specified in requirements file. I am running everything on Raspbian stretch. Am I missing something?

[mkowalski]

Tutorials do not mention Raspberry Pi at this moment. Closing the issue