About the DeskPi Pro

The DeskPi Pro is a hardware kit for converting a standard Raspberry Pi 4 from a naked SBC, with limited storage, into a mini PC complete with a power button, cooling, better ports and, via SATA then USB3, 2.5" or M.2 SSD storage.

Operating Systems (OS)

Tested successfully with DeskPi scripts

• DietPi (64bit)
• Kali-linux-arm (32bit)
• Manjaro (32bit)
• Raspberry Pi OS (32bit)
• RaspiOS (64bit)
• RetroPie OS (32bit)
• Twister OS v2.0.2 (32bit)
• Ubuntu-mate OS(32bit)
• Ubuntu (64bit)
• Volumio OS Version: 2021-04-24-Pi (32bit)

Yet to be tested with DeskPi scripts

• Kali-linux-arm OS (64-Bit)
• Manjaro OS (64bit)
• Windows 11

Not supported

• Windows 10 IoT

Please read this section carefully

• If using a 64bit OS, the script to control the fan is in the rivers/c/ directory. The file suffix with 64 means 64bit and the one without a 32bit executable file
• Before you install this script, please make sure your Raspberry Pi can access the GitHub website

Installation

For Raspbian OS 64bit (bookworm)

• Step 1. Enable Front USB port Edit /boot/firmware/config.txt file by adding the following parameter:

dtoverlay=dwc2,dr_mode=host

Save it and reboot your Raspberry Pi.

• Step 2. Install fan driver TO BE DONE, we are working on it...

For Raspbian and RetroPie OS

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/DeskPi-Team/deskpi.git
cd ~/deskpi/
chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh

For Ubuntu 64bit OS

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/DeskPi-Team/deskpi.git
cd ~/deskpi/
chmod +x install-ubuntu-64.sh
sudo ./install-ubuntu-64.sh

For Ubuntu-mate OS

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/DeskPi-Team/deskpi.git
cd ~/deskpi/
chmod +x install-ubuntu-mate.sh
sudo ./install-ubuntu-mate.sh

For Manjaro OS

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/DeskPi-Team/deskpi.git
cd ~/deskpi/
chmod +x install-manjaro.sh
sudo ./install-manjaro.sh

For Kali-linux-arm OS

• Image Download URL: https://images.kali.org/arm-images/kali-linux-2020.3a-rpi3-nexmon.img.xz