Installing info-beamer-pi standalone on RPi OS Bookworm Lite (64-bit)

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How to install the info-beamer-pi standalone on the latest Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) Lite

Hardware used for this tutorial:

  • Raspberry Pi 4 (4 Gb RAM)
  • 3.5A USB-C power supply
  • Samsung EVO 32Gb Class-10 MicroSD card
  • 1920 x 1080 HDMI Display
  • USB keyboard

Setup Raspberry Pi OS Lite

  1. Download and install Raspberry Pi Imager from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
  2. Run Raspberry Pi Imager and select “Raspberry Pi 4” from the “Raspberry Pi Device” menu
  3. Choose “Raspberry Pi OS (other)” from the “Operating System” menu
  4. Choose “Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)”
  5. Insert the MicroSD card in a USB adapter and select it from the “Storage” menu
  6. Click “Next”
  7. Choose “Edit settings”, then set the name and password, locale and other options for the new system
  8. Click “Yes” to continue
  9. Click “Yes” to confirm everything on the MicroSD card will be erased
  10. When complete, remove the MicroSD card from the USB adapter and insert it into the Raspberry Pi 4

Installing info-beamer-pi

  1. Connect display, keyboard, ethernet and finally power to the Raspberry Pi 4
  2. Login using the name and password you selected earlier
  3. Update the operating system with the command sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and press enter
  4. Change to the home directory by typing ~ and then pressing enter
  5. Download info-beamer-pi with the command wget https://info-beamer.com/jump/download/player/info-beamer-pi-2.0.0.9838e9-bookworm-64.tar.gz and press enter
  6. Extract the downloaded file with the command tar xf info-beamer-pi-2.0.0.9838e9-bookworm-64.tar.gz then press enter
  7. Type ls and press enter
  8. A directory called “info-beamer-pi” should now exist in the home directory
  9. Install the required dependencies with the command sudo apt install libgbm-dev libao-dev ffmpeg libgles-dev libevent-dev then press enter
  10. Enter your password to begin the installation (if prompted)

Testing info-beamer-pi

  1. Type cd info-beamer-pi then press enter
  2. Type ./info-beamer sample/shader then press enter
  3. The shader example should appear on the display
  4. Press Control-C to exit the example

I hope this information is helpful and welcome any comments or feedback!