Raspberry Pis make great little servers. With low power consumption, they make great devices if you need cheap web services running 24/7. One aspect I dislike about them however, is that they need to boot using an SD card. Given the limited number of write cycles that most SD …

I recently had an installation of Debian Wheezy on an an ARMv5 device that needed some new Python packages installed. Having performed some Python development in the past, I wanted to use [Pip](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager) (a Python package manager).

I also needed to install some …