Redshift on Lubuntu on a Raspberry Pi

I did it! I managed to get Redshift running on my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B!

Attribution time! The picture you see above is a combination of the following images:

• Background
• Lubuntu logo
• Raspberry Pi logo
• Redshift logo

I downloaded Lubuntu 16.04, uploaded to a 8GB micro SD card and put into Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.1. At first I was trying to make f.lux to finally work on my Linux system, but no luck. Then I found an alternative called Redshift, which (in the end) worked perfectly. To do this, I enabled the experimental OpenGL driver.

Here’s what I did (thanks to a comment on Reddit for providing part of these steps):

# Updating Raspberry Pi firmware
sudo rpi-update

# Restart just in case
reboot

# Download package lists from repositories
sudo apt-get update

# Upgrade everything (WARNING: this took more than an hour for me)
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

# Protagonist of this post
sudo apt-get install redshift

# The RPi config tool
sudo apt-get install raspi-config

# I needed it to enable the OpenGL driver
sudo apt-get install xcompmgr

# See the screenshots to know what to do next
sudo raspi-config

 

After the restart run:

redshift -O 3500

And that’s it! Screen should be more orange now. Now it can setup based on this page:
http://jonls.dk/redshift/