XXX: Load Hivetool on the Pi

Get latest raw image of operating system

We are using Raspbian.

The latest image available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads is: 2013-12-20-wheezy-raspbian.zip

Unzip the image. On Unix/Linux command line: tar -xvzf 2013-12-20-wheezy-raspbian.zip

Copy the image to the SD card

Make SD card on Unix/Linux system

1. dd bs=4M if=2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

Detailed instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Linux_.28including_on_a_Pi.21.29

Make SD card on Windows system

raspberrypi.org recommends using: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ But be careful. REMOVE any other USB memory devices from your computer. Detailed instructions: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Windows

Boot Pi, expand file system, set TZ and hostname

1. Boot Pi and login
2. Expand file system, set TZ and hostname

   sudo raspi-config

   (need details of menu options)

Install required packages

1. Update before trying to add packages

   sudo apt-get update

2. Get gawk, bc for shell scripts, apache for webserver, and libusb to read TEMPerHUMs.

   sudo apt-get install gawk bc apache2

   sudo apt-get libusb-dev

3. Get the graphics library

   sudo apt-get -y install libgd2-xpm-dev build-essential

4. Now get Graphics for perl. Force the install.

   sudo cpan -f GD

   sudo cpan GD::Text GD::Graph Date::Format

5. Copy the patched pm

   sudo scp -P8022 paul@192.168.254.31:/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/GD/Graph/axestype.pm /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/GD/Graph/axestype.pm

6. Make hivetool and htdocs directories.

   sudo mkdir /home/hivetool

   sudo mkdir /var/www/htdocs

7. Copy the hivetool files"

   scp -P8022 pi@192.168.254.31:/home/hivetool/* /home/hivetool

   sudo scp -P8022 pi@192.168.254.31:/var/www/htdocs/* /var/www/htdocs

Done installing hivetool files

Set the ethernet parameters and DNS servers

1. set static ip for port forwarding

   sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces:

   iface eth0 inet dhcp

   iface eth0 inet static

   address 192.168.254.31

   netmask 255.255.255.0

   gateway 192.168.254.254

2. Set the dns Servers

   /etc/network/interfaces

   /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf

Configure apache

1. set up apache

   sudo vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf

2. Listen 8080
3. add .pl to AddHandler cgi-script
4. sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mime.conf
5. AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
6. add Includes to Options:
7. sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
8. Add index.shtml:
9. sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
10. sudo cp /etc/apache2/mods-available/include.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

Misc

1. Set the local host name

   sudo vi /etc/hostname

2. and edit the local host name here, too:

   sudo vi /etc/hosts