Raspberry Pi

What comes with the Raspberry Pi (headless/server) installer?

The server install is the default on any Linux host. It uses only standard APT packages — no Launchpad PPAs or Ubuntu-specific tooling — so it works on Raspberry Pi OS, Debian, and Ubuntu Server without modification.

Packages

The following packages are installed via APT:

build-essential, g++, gcc — C/C++ build tools
ca-certificates, curl, gnupg, gnupg-agent — networking and cryptography essentials
fd-find, fzf, ripgrep — modern file and search tools
jq — JSON processor
less — pager
libffi-dev, libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev — common build dependencies (e.g., for compiling Python via pyenv)
make — build automation
shellcheck — shell script linter
tmux — terminal multiplexer
vim — text editor
zsh — shell

Note

software-properties-common is not installed in server mode because it is only needed for managing PPAs, which are Ubuntu-specific and unsupported on Raspberry Pi OS / Debian.

Pyenv

pyenv is installed via the official installer script so that multiple Python versions can be managed without affecting the system Python.

Dotfiles

The same dotfiles are linked on all platforms via dotbot:

$HOME/
    .editorconfig
    .gitconfig
    .gitignore
    .tmux.conf
    .vimrc
    .zshrc

Clipboard

On a headless Linux system (no $DISPLAY), the tmux y copy binding stores selections in the tmux buffer rather than piping to xclip, which requires an X11 display. When a display is available, xclip is used as normal.