The Raspbian Install process is fairly well documented using the Raspbian Installer. This is just to document common tasks after the stock install.
Install base utils
apt-get install sudo vim ntpdate git-core binutils make gcc ca-certificates rpi-update
Allow non-root user account access to ‘sudo’
adduser USERNAME sudo
For those Ubuntu users there is no ‘admin’ group in Raspbian (Debian Wheezy).
NTP time update
sudo rm /etc/localtime
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Adelaide /etc/localtime
sudo ntpdate -u au.pool.ntp.org
Probably best to choose an NTP Server closest to your location or provided by your ISP
Firmware upgrade
EDIT (2014-03-31): rpi-update is now part of the Raspbian repositories and can be installed via apt-get install rpi-update (I have added this to the above line).
Note: unless you want the latest firmware this is not a necessary step as apt-get will update the firmware to the latest stable release.
Using Hexxeh updater.
Install dependencies
wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
sudo rpi-update
Install WiringPi
Thanks to the excellent work of Gordon Henderson (https://projects.drogon.net/raspberry-pi/wiringpi/) this is a C-based program to read/write to the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins.
cd /usr/share
git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi
cd wiringPi
git pull origin
./build
Output:
wiringPi Build script ===================== The wiringPi I2C helper libraries will not be built. WiringPi library [UnInstall] [Compile] wiringPi.c [Compile] wiringPiFace.c [Compile] wiringSerial.c [Compile] wiringShift.c [Compile] gertboard.c [Compile] piNes.c [Compile] lcd.c [Compile] piHiPri.c [Compile] piThread.c [Compile] wiringPiSPI.c [Compile] softPwm.c [Compile] softServo.c [Compile] softTone.c [Link (Dynamic)] [Install] GPIO Utility [Compile] gpio.c [Link] [Install] All Done.
Testing the install
gpio readall
Output:
+----------+------+--------+------+-------+ | wiringPi | GPIO | Name | Mode | Value | +----------+------+--------+------+-------+ | 0 | 17 | GPIO 0 | IN | Low | | 1 | 18 | GPIO 1 | IN | Low | | 2 | 21 | GPIO 2 | IN | Low | | 3 | 22 | GPIO 3 | IN | Low | | 4 | 23 | GPIO 4 | IN | Low | | 5 | 24 | GPIO 5 | IN | Low | | 6 | 25 | GPIO 6 | IN | Low | | 7 | 4 | GPIO 7 | IN | Low | | 8 | 0 | SDA | ALT0 | High | | 9 | 1 | SCL | ALT0 | High | | 10 | 8 | CE0 | ALT0 | High | | 11 | 7 | CE1 | ALT0 | High | | 12 | 10 | MOSI | ALT0 | Low | | 13 | 9 | MISO | ALT0 | Low | | 14 | 11 | SCLK | ALT0 | Low | | 15 | 14 | TxD | ALT0 | High | | 16 | 15 | RxD | ALT0 | High | +----------+------+--------+------+-------+
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