Raspberry Pi Show-n-Tell @ManchLUG

Tonight I brought my Raspberry Pi to the Manchester (NH) Linux Users Group for a show & tell session.

Here are my slides:

• OpenOffice format



• PDF Format

For the record, some of us were drinking Lindemans Framboise Lambic Beer in honor of the topic.

ThinkUp on Raspberry Pi

Tonight I installed the cool social networking monitoring tool ThikUp on my new Raspberry Pi with the lastest debian code drop.

1. Downloaded the new (11-Jun-2012) test Debian/Wheezy image as announced on http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=8071
   
   
2. Since I'm using a new 4GB MMC card and the image was built for 2GB, ran "sudo rasp_config" to resize the disk and bias memory toward SoC instead of the video card. Rebooted. Realized it didn't reboot, pull power and boot
   



3. 
   
   3) I run a a local apt-proxy to save bandwidth, so created /etc/apt/apt.conf that contains:
   
   Acquire::http::Proxy "http://192.168.2.109:3142";
   



4. 
   
   4) Update the apt-cache:
   
   sudo apt-get update
   




5. Install useful bits:
   
   sudo apt-get install emacs screen mysql-server php5 php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql
   
   This installs ~61M of new packages and pulls in a suitable apache server.


6. 
   Now time to install thinkup:
   
sudo -i
cd /var/www/
unzip ~pi/thinkup_1.0.7.zip
chown -R www-data /var/www/thinkup/data/
sudo touch /var/www/thinkup/config.inc.php
sudo chown www-data /var/www/thinkup/config.inc.php

   




7. point a browser to http://192.168.2.120/thinkup/install



8. Since I didn't bother to setup outbound email, need to manually
   update the thinkup table. See
   http://thinkupapp.com/docs/troubleshoot/common/advanced/directdb.html
   
   mysql -u root -p
mysql> use thinkup;
mysql> select id,full_name, is_activated from tu_owners;
+----+-------------+--------------+
| id | full_name | is_activated |
+----+-------------+--------------+
| 1 | Marc Nozell | 0 |
+----+-------------+--------------+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> update tu_owners set is_activated=1 where id=1;
mysql> commit;
mysql> exit;

   
   



9. Point a browser to http://192.168.2.120/thinkup and setup
   connections to your favorite social media sites.