Package Manager and SSH

Setting up package manager

The Next Thing Co.'s package repository is dead for a long time, but one guy still mirrors them.

You can refer to this page to make the package manager work. Don't forget to sudo apt-get update (I wouldn't risk upgrade though).

To install and enable SSH:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server
sudo systemctl enable ssh.socket

You need sudo to use commands like ifconfig, shutdown, reboot. Without that they won't even show up 😲

Reboot, then check the IP using sudo ifconfig and issue ssh chip@<ip> on another host. By default the credentials are chip/chip.

Right after setting up package manager and SSH access, I've installed these packages to make my life a bit easier.