Pi Any Means Necessary #2: Software availability

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:36:37 +0100

I’ve taken for granted in the past that if I’m on a Raspberry Pi, I’m going to have an easy time of getting software for ARM: it’s all-but the default platform for which ARM software is built, given the prevalence of the board in the marketplace. This isn’t - for now, at least - so true if you’re on a 64-bit OS. In spite of the Pi having a 64-bit processor since the Pi 3, the software ecosystem hasn’t quite caught up to that. This isn’t an issue for things distributed by Debian - all of that ends up in the core repositories and is only an apt install away - but for things distributed in the likes of AppImages or Flatpaks, this poses more of a problem.

Arm64 on anitabyte

Pi Any Means Necessary #2: Software availability