Problem Description
I was about to use freedombox on my pi5 but it seems that pi5 isnt supported yet, so I went for a pi4
and then I connected fan to my rpi4 for active cooling, which it communicates with my rpi4 via i2c, so I need to enable i2c in rpi-config (like this is on the official rpi-imager library so I guess it get some function every other os got), and then whala
Taokyle@freedombox:~$ raspi-config
-bash: raspi-config: command not found
Taokyle@freedombox:~$ sudo raspi-config
sudo: raspi-config: command not found
Steps to Reproduce
(get a raspberry pi)
(burn a freedom box rpi version onto your rpi)
(do some setup)
(ssh into it)
(run sudo raspi-config like you do on every other rpi os)
Expected Results
tweak with the raspberry pi hardware thing
that only allow me to become the superuser, I still cant enable i2c for gpio via whatever I can do (tho the easiest way is to uae raspi-config but its gone)
raspi-config is only included in raspian os’es. youd have to manually add the raspberry repo/archives to download it. havent tried myself but lots of forum posts not advising to use it outside of raspian.
@Taokyle An alternative could be running FreedomBox on vanilla Debian instead of using a prebuilt image. This way you would get full Raspi5 support and easy access to raspi-config out of the box.
I’ve set up my current FBX from plain Raspbian and then simply installed the freedombox package via apt. However, this would require reinstalling the whole thing, which may not be desirable.
Thanks, I just simply found freedombox on the official image libraries and wanna try it out while keeping my oled status screen and fan running for the rpi, found this issue asap so I didnt have too much changes on the freedombox. sudo apt-get install freedombox on raspbian worked perfectly
Taokyle - I have seen, and experienced, using raspi-config in freedombox. Half installed - meaning dpkg’ed and place into a directory in /tmp, raspinfo worked for the most part… had some problems opening a couple of files. raspi-config worked like a champ until I rebooted and it bricked my SD card. The system would do nothing but sit there. I noticed that kali rewrote raspi-config to suit their needs or at least it did seem that way.
My takeaway, and it might be because freedombox coders have bigger fish to fry, would be that it could be integrated, but IDK. All things being equal - freedombox is really good for what it does do. Most impressive.
