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rPi: Download NOOBS

[last updated: 2019-12-05]
go to: raspberry Pi home page
go to: SD card problems
go to: creating a new NOOBS card

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  • This procedure will download a .zip file of the most current version of NOOBS - onto your PC.
  • You then can extract NOOBS from your PC onto an SD card for your rPi to use.
  • NOOBS ("New Out Of Box Software") is a program residing on your rPi SD card. The first time you boot your rPi with an SD card that contains NOOBS, NOOBS will open and allow you to select the operating system you want to use. After you make your choice, it will install it for you. Subsequent boots of your rPi will come up with whichever OS you have selected, ie. the actual NOOBS program only runs once (see note).

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  • There are some options for which version you download:
    • Full version (including LibreELEC) for offline installation
    • NOOBS Lite - Network install only
      meaning you download & install the NOOBS Lite zip file,
      and when you execute it, it goes online to find the Raspbian code to download & install.
    • Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software
      SHA-256: 549da0fa9ed52a8d7c2d66cb06afac9fe856638b06d8f23df4e6b72e67ed4cea
    • Raspbian Buster with desktop
  • Download zip file of NOOBS software from: (link to:) raspberryPi.org:
    Put the zip file in an appropriate directory of your choice.
    On the raspberryPi.org download page there is (at this time) a 64-char SHA-256 code listed. Copy this code because you'll need it in the validation procedure below.
  • Validate your zip file:
    • In order to guarantee that the files you download are genuine and have not been tampered with, the following validation procedure will confirm their validity.
    • The buster 3.2.1 version I downloaded has validation code:
        SHA-256: 9d040a0b2795e940cab848c612a9ccfd739cf7ea5fcb1d42141f93cefcef4078
    • SHA is "Secure Hash Algorithm", and is a cryptographic function. There are different options for SHA hash tags - SHA-0, SHA-1, etc. Accordingly, I will execute:
      $ sha256sum [full path/filename to zip file you downloaded]
      Compare output of this command to the SHA-256 from the download site.
      If they do not match, delete the zip file and download it again.
      Mine Matched = Validated
  • At this point you are ready to extract and download the NOOBS software onto your SD card.

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