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HOW TO INSTALL PICROFT OR MYCROFT

THE PROCESS OF installing Picroft starts the same way as installing Raspbian: writing an SD card image. There are stable and unstable versions available at https://github.com/MycroftAI/enclosure-picroft. We’ll work with the stable image for this tutorial, but do give the unstable one a shot later to see some new features (and possibly bugs). Download the image to your machine—any machine running any OS; just be aware it’s 2.2GB zipped and 4.9GB unzipped, so make sure you have enough space. The image can be burned with a graphical program, such as the multi-platform Etcher (https://etcher.io), or the old-fashioned way with dd on Linux: $ sudo dd if=raspbian-stretch_Picroft_2018-09-12. img of=/dev/sdX status=progress bs=4K

Replace/dev/sdX with the appropriate device (the lsblk command will help you figure

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