From a terminal window, switch to the pi home directory and create a new directory called frame with subdirectory called photos.

mkdir -p /home/pi/frame/photos

The custom scripts will be stored in the /home/pi/frame directory and the local cache of photos will be stored in /home/pi/frame/photos. You may also want to create an extra directory at /home/pi/frame/newphotos where you can place a separate set of photos to display once (e.g. vacation photos). Download and Install the Software Packages Next, run the apt-get command from a terminal window to update the list of available programs:

sudo apt-get update

Download and install the rsync client that will enable the frame to compare it's cache of images against those on a host server and synchronize its list of photos with the server. For example, if a file is added or deleted from the host, rsync will add or remove it from the picture frame.

sudo apt-get install rsync

Install the frame's image viewer program, FEH:

sudo apt-get install feh

We don't want to see the GUI's pointer during the slideshow, so we install unclutter to hide it:

sudo apt-get install unclutter