STICKY: Astro Pi software and drivers installation - Raspberry Pi Forums

hi folks,
if won astro pi kit phase 1 of competition have pre-installed sd card quite out of date (as of august 2015) , advised update sd cards latest version of raspbian.

astro pi python module has been replaced sense hat 1 here. advised people migrate away old astro pi python module (which never updated again) using new sense hat 1 (which will).

install: http://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/

the module backwardly compatible old astro pi python module way of alias.

have:

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from astro_pi import astropi ap = astropi()

can change astro_pi sense_hat so:

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from sense_hat import astropi ap = astropi()

, rest of code should just work. put in allow people large bodies of astro pi specific code migrate new module. it's way code self describe relates astro pi mission.

if school or workplace uses web proxy may need tell git in order updates work.
can type:

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git config --global http.proxy http://your.proxyserver.com:8080

or

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git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@your.proxyserver.com:8080

if proxy requires username , password.

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