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Installing Raspbian

Raspbian is the officially supported operating system for Raspberry Pi by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Raspbian can be installed on Raspberry Pi through NOOBS, or as a standalone image:

Browse the page https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ on the Raspberry Pi website. You can find two options at the top of the page:
- New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS): An easy operating system installer for beginners
- Raspbian: The officially supported Raspberry Pi operating system based on Debian
Click Raspbian:

Raspbian

You will navigate to the https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ page. Click on RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE, which ...

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