Mikec Posted December 26, 2015 Posted December 26, 2015 I live in the desert in California and the only Internet access I have is using PDANet on my phone. Is there a way to build an SD Card using rufus (which is a great app by the way) that I can use to load LXDE on my Olimex Micro? Once I get the desktop loaded I will get PDANet working on Olimex, but this seems like the lessor of two evils. I have both Jessie and Wheezy working and I'm still running off of the SDCard's. I have SSH working in both versions if that helps. thanks in advance. Mike
technik007_cz Posted December 26, 2015 Posted December 26, 2015 Hi mate, I do not understand what is your problem now. But forget rufus, we use dd command (see section "How to prepare SD card?" http://www.armbian.com/documentation/). If you want use desktop environment I recommend you download legacy image with Ubuntu and desktop preloaded. If you for some reason prefer Debian system log in shh terminal and type in "apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install lxde -y", but I do not know in which state is vga/gpu driver.
Mikec Posted December 26, 2015 Author Posted December 26, 2015 My only access to the Internet is through my phone tied to my Windows laptop, and that is why I am trying to find a way to download the img on my laptop and then move the img over to my olimex with a sd or usb stick. I found a place on line where I can download the LXDE img. Can I just put the compressed file on a USB stick and mount it on the olimex micro and install that way, or is the install command a part of the apt-get tool?
technik007_cz Posted December 26, 2015 Posted December 26, 2015 I recommend you decompress image file while you are on Windows and copy that image using http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager to your microsd. Could you post link of that image you found ? Just for case..
Mikec Posted December 27, 2015 Author Posted December 27, 2015 I found it at Debian.... https://packages.debian.org/stretch/all/lxde/download I thought what I could do was move the deb file to a USB stick, mount the stick on the micro and run dd on it. I tried something like that, with my limited knowledge of Linux, and made a brick out of my SD, and had to rebuild the SD. I am getting really good at building the SD Cards..... I think that even my dog Scraps can build an SD now... hehe The site suggests that you use one of the apt-get packages instead of rolling your own, but I figured I would give it a shot.
Mikec Posted December 27, 2015 Author Posted December 27, 2015 I decided to give the version that I had found on debian a shot. I uncompressed the files and put them on a USB stick, and mounted the stick. I tried to run the configure shell and it said that I needed intltool updated. I found that and put that on the stick as well, When I ran the intltool configure it then told me that my Parser Perl was to old or not there. I couldn't find that file anywhere in the data structure, so I decided on a different approach. I decided to try turning on ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) on my laptop running windows, and after changing a few IP addresses, I was able to share my Internet connection from my laptop. I downloaded LXDE at a blazing 158 bytes per second. The version that I downloaded isn't the same one that I saw on the Armbian website, and looks like the one that I got on the SD from Olimex. I am also getting an error message that is saying "The name org.fredesktop.policykit1 was not provided by any .services files". Not sure what that is all about, but it seems to work. .
scheik Posted December 31, 2015 Posted December 31, 2015 "The name org.fredesktop.policykit1 was not provided by any .services files". Hi Mikec, I remember a similar Problem after installing LXDE on Archchlinux on a Raspberry. Am not sure but installing Policykit solved the Problem for me that times. Try install with: sudo apt-get install policykit-1 If that package is not found you can search for packages with: sudo apt-cache search policykit Maybe that helps, happy new Year!
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