Downloads
New Out Of Box Software (Recommended)
We recommend that first-time Pi users start by downloading and installing our New Out of Box Software (NOOBS) onto a 4GB (or larger) SD card. On first boot, this presents you with a choice of operating systems to install, including Raspbian, Pidora and two flavours of XBMC. Once you have installed an operating system, you can return to the NOOBS interface by holding down shift during boot; this allows you to switch to a different operating system, or overwrite a corrupted card with a fresh install of the current one.
By default, NOOBS will output over HDMI at your display’s preferred resolution, even if no HDMI display is connected. If you do not see any output on your HDMI display or are using the composite output, press 1, 2, 3 or 4 on your keyboard to select HDMI preferred mode, HDMI safe mode, composite PAL mode or composite NTSC mode respectively.
Full instructions can be found in our quick start guide, but in summary you will need to:
- Format your SD card using the SD Card Association’s formatting tool.
- Download and unpack the NOOBS zip file onto the SD card
NOOBS (offline and network install)
| Image | NOOBS_v1_3_2.zip |
| Torrent | NOOBS_v1_3_2.zip.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | b5c183b2ba4be4fbaeb40f170871444f3aef19c9 |
| Release Date | 2013-11-02 |
| Version | 1.3.2 |
| Documentation | Link |
NOOBS Lite (network install only)
| Image | NOOBS_lite_v1_3_2.zip |
| Torrent | NOOBS_lite_v1_3_2.zip.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | 08c1c78a5a6b9c3fe9924c4b8aebd941a67bfb00 |
| Release Date | 2013-11-02 |
| Version | 1.3.2 |
| Documentation | Link |
Raw Images
The following raw images are intended for advanced users. To use an image file, you will need to unzip it and write it to a suitable (2GB or larger, 4GB or larger for Raspbian) SD card using the UNIX tool dd. Windows users should use Win32DiskImager. Do not try to drag and drop or otherwise copy over the image without using dd or Win32DiskImager – it won’t work. If you’re still not clear on what to do, the community on the Raspberry Pi Wiki has written a guide for beginners on how to set up your SD card.
Raspbian
| Image | 2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip |
| Torrent | 2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | 99e6b5e6b8cfbf66e34437a74022fcf9744ccb1d |
| Default login | pi / raspberry |
| Description | A Debian wheezy port, optimised for the Raspberry Pi |
| Release Date | 2013-09-25 |
| Version | wheezy |
| Kernel | 3.6 |
| URL | Link |
| Release Notes | release_notes.txt |
Pidora
| Image | pidora-18-r2c.zip |
| Torrent | pidora-18-r2c.zip.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | c43178ea18063928de21daf441aa10152d4ce4f9 |
| Description | Pidora is a Fedora Remix optimized for the Raspberry Pi |
| Release Date | 2013-08-09 |
| Version | 18 |
| Kernel | 3.6.11 |
| URL | Link |
| Release Notes | release_notes.txt |
RISC OS
| Image | riscos-2013-07-10-RC11.zip |
| Torrent | riscos-2013-07-10-RC11.zip.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | 600ea45c26f5afd91cfc4c4cfa393cd4bb7549f7 |
| Description | RISC OS is a very fast and compact system |
| Release Date | 2013-07-10 |
| Version | 2013-07-10 |
| Kernel | N/A |
| URL | Link |
RaspBMC
| Image | raspbmc-2013-10-02.img.gz |
| Torrent | raspbmc-2013-10-02.img.gz.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | 1c359a69b018a705ba6d8e95c7bb2827856d076d |
| Description | An XBMC media center distribution for Raspberry Pi |
| Release Date | 2013-10-02 |
| Version | October 2013 |
| Kernel | 3.6 |
| URL | Link |
| Release Notes | release_notes.txt |
Arch
| Image | archlinux-hf-2013-07-22.img.zip |
| Torrent | archlinux-hf-2013-07-22.img.zip.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | e273d680e89ca9f79c2252c0b00ccc3084cd9b14 |
| Default login | root / root |
| Description | An Arch Linux port for ARM devices |
| Release Date | 2013-08-13 |
| Version | 2013-08-13 |
| Kernel | 3.6 |
| URL | Link |
| Release Notes | release_notes.txt |
OpenELEC
| Image | OpenELEC-RPi.arm-3.2.0.tar |
| Torrent | OpenELEC-RPi.arm-3.2.0.tar.torrent |
| SHA-1 Checksum | ddb717b29f32fbbe27298e8ac9c077036bc4a718 |
| Description | OpenELEC is a fast and userfriendly XBMC Mediacenter distribution. |
| Release Date | 2013-09-14 |
| Version | 3.2.0 |
| Kernel | 3.10.11 |
| URL | Link |
| Release Notes | release_notes.txt |
Note: Raspbian and NOOBS contain Java SE Platform Products, licensed to you under the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement.