In this series the pi itself is installed using Raspbian Stretch Lite to keep it light. Some extra’s will come in handy.

Installing git on a Raspberry Pi

sudo apt install git -y

After installing git, set your credentials

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Git documentation

Installing wp-cli on a Raspberry pi

wp-cli will not work without php installed, and is also useless without WordPress

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
wp --info

WP-cli documentation

Installing composer on a Raspberry pi

composer will not work without php and git

curl -O https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
chmod +x composer.phar
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo composer self-update
composer --version

Composer documentation

Installing optipng gifsicle libjpeg-progs on a Raspberry Pi

You might want image optimization & compression. In the main php article php-gp was installed. But that is not enough.

sudo apt install -y optipng gifsicle libjpeg-progs webp

Installing send mail on a Raspberry Pi

sudo apt install -y sendmail

Installing PHP on a Raspberry Pi

PHP is covered in it’s own article.

Installing mariaDB/mysql on a Raspberry Pi

MariaDB or Mysql is covered in it’s own article.

Installing NginX on a Raspbery Pi

NginX is covered in it’s own article