How to install a GUI on my rpi (need memory!)

Help and Support Help
1

Hello,

I was using my rpi to host my website and I would like to continue to do that. I also wanted to install a GUI to control my pi with VNC.
I found a great tutorial to install a GUI on Raspbian Jessie Lite (raspberrypi.org/forums/view … 6&t=133691), but it looks like Volumio is using almost all the memory available !

Is this going to be a problem (for both GUI and small web-server) ? If so is there another MPD solution more appropriate to my needs?
I was planning to create a (physical) UI for Volumio so I’ld like to stay in this community a little bit longer :wink:

2

[code] ___
/_ \ __
__ __ //\ \ __ __ ___ ___ /_\ ___
/\ /\ \ / __\\ \ \ /\ \/\ \ /' __ __\/\ \ / __\
\ \ _/ |/\ \L\ \\ _\ \ _\ /\ /\ /\ \ \ /\ \L\
\ _/ \ _//_\ _/\ _\ _\ _\ _\ _/
// // // // /////////___/

         Free Audiophile Linux Music Player - Version 2.0

      C 2015 Michelangelo Guarise - Volumio Team - Volumio.org

Volumio Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
flo@aurora:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 973 797 175 32 91 410
-/+ buffers/cache: 294 678
Swap: 0 0 0
[/code]

VNC is running with Mate, runs like a charm. I can remote access my pi, run firefox and more without swapping.

3

Why do I have more memory used than you without any desktop environment running?!

4

Most of it is cached, I’d say give it a try. worse case rollback :wink:

5

It seems to work (I installed mate-desktop-environment), let’s see if I can also run Nginx now :stuck_out_tongue:
16-10-29 at 16.25.JPG

6

Volumio used a ramdisk to decrease the wear of SD cards. That probably is why you see a high ram usage.

7

Yes Volumio2 runs on RAM, therefore on 512MB PIs, you get reallly not much room left for other stuff…
Your mileage may vary however…

8

I’m glad to use a RPI2 :slight_smile:

My php-server is running (using nginx) and I can access it by taping localhost on my RPI but on my desktop when I use 192.168.0.12/ or my website url it reaches volumio UI. How can I change that please?

I think my ideal configuration should be the opposite process (access to volumio UI only from local RPI and my web server using outside network) or at least a subfolder to access to volumio UI (192.168.0.12/volumio/) and let base path free. :bulb:

PS : volumio.local/ doesn’t work on my network.

9

I’m kind of stuck here :cry: