In this article you will find notes about NoMachine packages which we have made available for Linux Raspberry Pi devices. Please select the appropriate subsection according to the version of Raspberry Pi that you have. We try to test as many distributions as possible for various RPi models, but it might be that your distribution or version is not listed here. In that case, reach out to us to know if it can be added.

The packages we provide for Raspberry are currently divided into three separate ARM versions: ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8 . Make sure you install the correct packages for the Raspberry device that you are using (https://www.nomachine.com/download).

To check what architecture your is Raspberry based on, open a terminal on your device and run the uname -m command. Some examples:

armv6l - means that you should useARMv6 packages
armv7l - means that you should use ARMv7 packages
aarch64 - means that you should use ARMv8 packages

IMPORTANT: depending on the specific model, a selection of distros are supported from the following:

Centos
Fedora            
Debian            
Raspbian prior to 2021
Raspberry Pi OS from 2020 onwards     
Ubuntu (Linaro) 

Please make sure you refer to the Minimum Requirements of each Raspberry model in order to understand the distributions and their specific versions (e.g Raspbian Jessie, Fedora 26) that we can officially support. If you are not sure about what to download for your model, please contact us.

Users of Raspberry Pi running ARMv6

NoMachine packages

Packages for ARMv6 are suitable for Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3 running ARMv6 system. They have been tested in the following environments.

Notes:

For users of Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspbian (February 2015) - We recommended setting force_turbo in config.txt for optimized performance. Consult http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#force_turbo_mode

For users of Raspberry Pi 2 running Fedora 21 REMIX for RPi2 - Linux for ARMv7 was used to test the RPM packages since currently there is no ARMv6 Pidora/Fedora for RPi2 available. Please consult http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=101027 for more details.

IMPORTANT: Performance on Raspberry Pi (first edition) cannot be considered satisfactory and we therefore don't recommend NoMachine for this particular model.

Users of Raspberry Pi running ARMv7

NoMachine packages

Audio is available only when the PulseAudio service is available. We are aware of some problems when ALSA sound system is used.

For ARMv6 users:

If you are running the NoMachine session on Raspbian, you need to set the maximum audio quality even if PulseAudio is used. This problem is rather due to Raspbian than to NoMachine software.

To set the audio quality, open the NoMachine menu inside the session (ctrl+alt+0 or click on the page peel in the upper right corner of the window) and click on the Audio button icon -> Change settings.

Client side (end-user's device)

It's necessary that the PulseAudio service is installed on the client device.

Server side

With NoMachine server installation on ARM systems it's necessary that PulseAudio server is installed and enabled before the installation of the NoMachine package.

If you install the PulseAudio server later, run the following command to update NoMachine audio support:

/usr/NX/bin/nxnode --audiosetup [<path>]

where <path> is an optional argument to specify the absolute path to PulseAudio configuration files (e.g. client.conf, daemon.conf, ...) in a non standard location. For more information about this command please run /usr/NX/bin/nxnode --help.