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Round two of Raspbian loaded and running

I run tightvnc on my Raspberry Pis - I don't have the problem that you describe.

Code:

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

then manually run tightvncserver from the shell (just type "tightvncserver") to set the VNC password. You'll need to contrive a script if you want to make it start automatically (or modify the script you currently have).

You may also want "autocutsel" to copy/paste between your VNC session and the RPi

Code:

sudo apt-get install autocutsel

Then add the line "autocutsel -fork" to the file /home/pi/.vnc/xstartup so autocutsel runs in the background automatically when X starts.

The easiest way to download the current CumulusMX is to just start X and use the web browser built in to the Raspberry Pi (or the wget command line tool) to download the file. Don't forget that you'll need a web browser to configure CumulusMX anyway - it doesn't have a built in user interface. A quick 'n dirty alternative to downloading on the RPi is to copy the file to a USB flash drive on your Windows machine, then plug the flash drive in to the RPi. Linux will automatically mount the flash drive for you - even if it's formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. Windows will not be able to read or write your RPi SD card without special software.

You may want to unpack the .zip file to a temporary directory, then move it out to wherever you want to keep it permanently:

Code:

mkdir temp
unzip -d ./temp ./CumulusMXDist3037.zip

My setup is slightly more complex than most. My RPi is also functioning as a media centre PC, so it's running OSMC instead of Raspbian. I just run CumulusMX from a directory under /home, called "CumuluxMX" (not a very original name). I don't think there is any convention here, but it seemed logical to go with the name of the directory in the zip file.

You'll probably want to get X working via VNC so you can leave a terminal window open with CumulusMX running in it and disconnect / reconnect to VNC without stopping CumulusMX. I use a slightly different approach in that I run CumulusMX from an SSH session, but use the "screen" utility to keep it running in the background when my SSH session is disconnected. I'm happy to share how this is done if anyone is interested, but it's probably not of interest to many people.

Once CumulusMX is started, you should be able to browse to: http://localhost:8998