SSH

SSH stands for secure shell. You can remotely connect to the raspberry pi terminal with an SSH client. A popular ssh client is Putty

NOTE Your Raspberry Pi needs to be connected to the same network (either via Ethernet or Wifi Dongle) as the computer you are accessing it from.

When you first start putty you can sign in with the following credentials:

You can also use your raspberry pi's ip address instead of retropie

Default Login:

username: pi

password: raspberry

See here if you wish to log in as root.

Some common terminal commands:

Reboot:

sudo reboot

Shutdown:

sudo shutdown -h now

Change Directory

cd /path/to/directory

list Files in Current Directory

ls

Retropie Setup Script:

sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Edit Files with Nano:

sudo nano /path/to/file.txt

Change owner to Pi:

sudo chown pi:pi filetobechanged

Change owner of folder and all files in folder to Pi:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /folder/to/be/changed

Make shell script executable:

sudo chmod +x yourshellscript.sh

Extra Configurations

If you find that you are getting weird characters on the dialog gui for the RetroPie Setup script you can change the font encoding to make it look pretty again.