Raspberry Pi 2 and RPi.GPIO...

Raspberry Pi 2

So, you just bought a new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. The one with 4 cores and 1GB of RAM. You want to run some python code that uses RPi.GPIO. You have the January 2015 Raspbian. You should be good to go, right?

RPi.GPIO

Let's revisit RPi.GPIO, the python module for interfacing with hardware on the Pi. Yes, it does come pre-installed. Latest Raspbian (January 2015) includes RPi.GPIO 0.5.9. But then, you try to run your script and it tells you

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo python myscript.py
RuntimeError: This module can only be run on a Raspberry Pi!

Hmm, ok, whatever, this is a Raspberry Pi! So we will have to upgrade the RPi.GPIO python module. While at it, let's install the python dev, setuptools and pip:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools
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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo easy_install pip
Searching for pip
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Best match: pip 6.0.8
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pip install RPi.GPIO

Now, if we try to install RPi.GPIO, it'll complain that it is already installed. So we will have to use the --upgrade option:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo pip install RPi.GPIO
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): RPi.GPIO in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

Let's try --upgrade

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo pip install --upgrade RPi.GPIO
Collecting RPi.GPIO from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/RPi.GPIO/RPi.GPIO-0.5.10.tar.gz#md5=f1c67de40bf99e0612d75538b06a2181
  Downloading RPi.GPIO-0.5.10.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: RPi.GPIO
  Found existing installation: RPi.GPIO 0.5.9
    DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (RPi.GPIO) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
    Uninstalling RPi.GPIO-0.5.9:
      Successfully uninstalled RPi.GPIO-0.5.9
  Running setup.py install for RPi.GPIO
    building 'RPi.GPIO' extension
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/py_gpio.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/py_gpio.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/c_gpio.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/c_gpio.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/cpuinfo.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/cpuinfo.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/event_gpio.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/event_gpio.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/soft_pwm.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/soft_pwm.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/py_pwm.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/py_pwm.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/common.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/common.o
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c source/constants.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/constants.o
    gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/py_gpio.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/c_gpio.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/cpuinfo.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/event_gpio.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/soft_pwm.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/py_pwm.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/common.o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/source/constants.o -o build/lib.linux-armv7l-2.7/RPi/GPIO.so
Successfully installed RPi.GPIO-0.5.10
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ 

OK, we are now ready to get to work. 0.5.10 works with the Raspberry Pi 2 model B.

Francois
@f_dion