software.md

Software installation

You'll need to make sure you have the following packages installed to proceed with the workshop.

• GPIO Zero for Python 3
• libav-tools

You'll need to be online to install packages.

First update and upgrade your system. Enter the following commands in to the terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now install the packages you'll need:

sudo apt-get install python3-gpiozero libav-tools

• Test you have gpiozero installed by entering python3 -c "import gpiozero" at the command line. You should see no error.
• Test you have libav-tools installed by entering avconv at the command line. You should see some information about the avconv version.