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Raspberry pi remote access active session

When I remote access the raspberry pi with software now installed I do not get to access the current session displayed on my tv, but rather a new session. Is there software to access the current running session so I can use the keyboard and mouse…
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Can the Pi camera module be used with a longer cable?

It appears the Raspberry Pi camera module v2 includes a 15cm ribbon cable, to connect it to the Pi. But I would like to have the camera sited further from the Pi, maybe a few metres away. So can this cable be extended, or replaced with a longer…
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Reduce Ubuntu mate 16.04 img file size

I downloaded the official ubuntu-mate-16.04.img.xz (which is about 1.1GB) and extracted it. But the extracted .img is about 8.1 GB which is about 162 MB larger than the size of my sd card. So, I can't restore the .img to sd card. In other words…
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Low bandwidth internet over VPN

I've just finished setting up a VPN'ed NAS with my newly acquired un-overclocked Raspberry Pi Model-B and I've run into something I can't find an answer for elsewhere. The internet bandwidth, as determined using wget --output-document=/dev/null …
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Restore PI from Pi itself

Just started playing around with a raspberry pi model b+ I've had sitting around for ages and I had a question? Is it possible to restore a Raspberry Pi from itself? E.g: Can I put an image on the microSD card, and then reboot the Pi to install the…
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Micro SD card slot on Pi 2

I've just received a Raspberry Pi 2 and tried to insert the micro SD card, but for some reason the mechanism doesn't appear to be working correctly. You hear a click and can observe the card pushing fully into the slot. However, the card simply…
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Which GPIO pins are usable without any modifications?

I've found that many of the GPIO pins are not usable on a stock installation of Raspbian with gpio-admin. For example, I wired up a relay to GPIO 21 only to find after some debugging that it didn't work as desired. Its neighbors GPIO 17 and GPIO 22…
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Switch between AP and client mode

I am working on a RPi radio project, and I'd like to be able to switch between a "setup mode" where the RPi acts as a Wi-Fi access point, allowing the user to send his/her home Wi-Fi credentials via a dedicated mobile app then write them into the…
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Can I Install Debian 64 bit on RPi 3

The Raspberry Pi 3 is built with a 64 bit chip. Yet the Raspberry Pi Foundation has only released Linux distros are 32 bit. Can I install a 64-bit version of Debian on the RPi 3?
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How to install Deluge Client and Web UI

how do i install deluge client w/ web ui in Rpi (not the headless server type since it's all i can see when i google) my os is the raspbian wheezy, still a noob here :)
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Is this the correct usage of rsync to create a Raspberry Pi backup?

Pardon my ignorance, I am a new user of this site, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi. The following is a link to a question, from which I used user goldilocks' well documented answer of using rsync, to create my own rsync command to make a backup to a…
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How to stream low-latency video from the RPi to a web browser in realtime

I took me a while of hunting, but I managed to get low-latency real-time video streaming working on my RPi2. I'm running this on my RPi2: raspivid -t 999999 -h 720 -w 1280 -fps 25 -b 2000000 -vf -o - | gst-launch-1.0 -v fdsrc ! h264parse !…
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Unable to use apt-get: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error ... is missing final newline

I am unable to use the apt-get command to install any packages on my pi. I started trying to install python-pip using sudo apt-get install python-pip which results in the error dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package…
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Getting the latest version of R on the Raspberry Pi

I have a Raspi that runs Debian Jessie (downloaded from the official Raspberry Download Website (Version 2015-11-21)). For one of my projects I want to use the software r and some of the very useful packages (data.table and ggplot2 if you want to…
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Raspberry Pi out of disk space

I'm ridiculously new to rpi and I've been following lots of tutorials in order to try to get face recognition working on my pi. I've run out of disk space and it seems that through following tons of tutorials, I've loaded up on junk. I saw in…
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