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Install WebIOPi on Arch Raspberry Pi

Raspbian decided to include some Oracle software into the main OS which no one cares. I had to switch to Arch to be able to continue to use my 2GB card.

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WebIOPi was developped and tested on Raspbian. Here’s how to make it work in Arch.

We install the dependencies first:-

# pacman -S python
# pacman -S python-py
# pacman -S python-setuptools
# pacman -S gcc

Now we follow the official WebIOPi documentation

# wget http://webiopi.googlecode.com/files/WebIOPi-0.6.0.tar.gz
# tar xvzf WebIOPi-0.6.0.tar.gz
# cd WebIOPi-0.6.0
# ./setup.sh

To start it, run

# webiopi

You shall be able to access it through your browser http://192.168.1.x:8000

P.S. I wrote this guide after having done it. If i missed a step please inform me.