Dietpi install w/ desktop....finally

[wa4chq]

Greetings all.  I finally got a desktop installed on the Dietpi.  I put it on the one RPi4 that has only 1gb of ram.  The problem I was having was, one of the sites it goes to when getting packages for a desktop, would always leave me with an error:

Quote

Failed to connect to raw.githubusercontent.com/---------

I should have done this before, but with a simple google search, I found the simple solution.  On the Dietpi, I had to

$ sudo nano /etc/hosts

then add the following at the end of the line

185.199.108.133 raw.githubusercontent.com

That did the trick.  So now I can use this RPi4 with the radio stuff and the RPi4 w/ 4gb, I'll find something else to use it for.

[Hedon James]

Excellent!  so much for the "not enough RAM" theory, though.  what desktop did you install?  That start menu icon looks like LXDE, but i thought you said LXDE wasn't an option?

[wa4chq]

1 hour ago, Hedon James said:

Excellent!  so much for the "not enough RAM" theory, though.  what desktop did you install?  That start menu icon looks like LXDE, but i thought you said LXDE wasn't an option?

Thanks.  Yeah, the other was light weight, but not like DietPi.  I'm using LXDE....it's supposed to be "Highly optimized, ultra lightweight".....I rekon they mean kinda smallish.  I'm also setting it up with Plex media server.  Kinda going overboard since I can just ssh to a RPi that contains music files and then play them with mocp.....which is what I've been doing, but Plex can do more....I can also store my photos.  Access Plex from my SmartTV ....kinda cool.