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How to add ppa entries manually on Raspberry Pi

I would like to know how I can add a "ppa" entry manually on the Raspberry Pi for the "apt" program. Where should I add my "ppa" entry (in which file) ? For example, I want to add the following ppa entry for guvcview. ppa:pj-assis/ppa
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Does WiFi on the Pi 3 reduce the Ethernet bottleneck when using USB device?

We all know that on Raspberry Pi 2 and previous models, the USB and Ethernet bandwidth is shared, so when we transfer data over Ethernet to a USB device and vice-versa we are limited by this fact. Since on the Raspberry pi 3 we have WiFi…
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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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Colored console over serial connection?

I am accessing two of my Pis via a serial connection on pins 8 and 10. One of them uses a serial to USB connector for my Mac and the other uses an HC-06 which connects to my Android. The console/terminal over serial is very bland and colorless,…
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Installing OS on separate Raspberry Pi

I have a micro SD card that I am planning on using with a Raspberry Pi Zero, I do not have a mini HDMI to full HDMI adapter, but I do have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, say could I image the card, do the first boot on the Pi 2, have it install Raspian,…
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conflicting dtoverlays

I'm using a GPIO connected display 1 which requires a patched kernel and dtoverlay=4dpi-3x in /boot/config.txt I would like to use a DS18B20 temperature sensor which requires dtoverlay=w1-gpio to show the temperature on the display. If I try to load…
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How to change the Raspberry Pi's hostname (in Raspbmc)?

Currently my dhcp-log displays my Raspberry Pi with the name xbmc-e0cb. Can I change this to a more sensible name?
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True 9-bit serial port data?

I have an existing, half complete, vending machine project running on an Atmel UTC, which I want to port to the Pi. In order to talk to peripherals, such as coin acceptor, it has to support Multi-Drop Bus which has a 9-data bit serial port…