How to do a fresh install of Raspbian OS

Using Raspberry Pi Imager

Vivi E
3 min readJul 4, 2020

Steps

  • Download and install the Raspberry Pi Imager from this link.
  • Go through the installation steps and make sure that the OS that you’re choosing is compatible with your RPi. Here’s a helpful link for that. In my case, I’m using RPi 3B+ and choosing Raspbian Buster 32-bit.
  • Safely remove your SD card from your computer.
  • Put that SD inside your RPi SD slot, and turn it on.
  • OS setup settings will pop up, and just choose your settings wisely. At this point, you would want to connect to your wifi as well.
Choose your country, and timezone
Connect to wifi
Update the software
  • Check OS, hardware, and free space.
cat /etc/os-release
uname -a
df -h
  • Update and upgrade.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
  • (Optional) Depending on what you plan to do with your RPi, you may want to free up some space.
# I don't need the following packages because I plan to do a computer vision project in my RPi
sudo apt-get purge wolfram-engine
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*
# always do this after purging
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

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