Installing Raspbian Jesse OS on Raspberry Pi

Step 1: Install the Operating System

The food_computer_2 runs on the standard Raspberry Pi Linux distribution: Raspbian Jesse. If you’re setting up the Food Computer from scratch, you’ll want to install Raspbian on an SD card first.

What you’ll need:

A Raspberry Pi 3
A micro SD card (32GB or more is best)
An SD card reader
An HDMI monitor
A keyboard
A mouse
A computer with internet access

Instructions:

Download Rasbpian Jesse. We recommend using the NOOBS installer.
- We don’t recommend using Raspbian Jesse Lite because it’s missing some libraries.
Follow the Setup guide. There’s also a helpful video walkthrough if you get lost.

Once you have Raspbian Jesse installed on your Raspberry Pi, connect it to the internet. Now you’re ready to install the Food Computer software.

Note: If you’ve purchased and installed the Adafruit TFT touchscreen you can download an image from Adafruit.com that includes the TFT drivers allowing you to skip the process of setting the touchscreen up.

Adafruit install image instructions are here!

Here is the link to copy RPI images to SD cards

Here is a handy how/why guide to setup your .local domain for your RaspberryPI

No more IP address lookups for you!

Step 2: Configuration

What you’ll need:

A Raspberry Pi 3
Shell access to the Raspberry Pi

Now that your Raspberry Pi has an operating system, we’ll want to log on to the pi over ssh. If you’ve never ssh before, raspberrypi.org has a great tutorial page.

We’ll want to make sure Git is installed (if you installed Raspbian Jesse Lite, you will probably have to install Git, otherwise, it will already be installed). In terminal, or over ssh, run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

Step 3: All Set!

Time to head over to installing and install the software.