Utility for configuring your board, adjusting services and installing applications. It comes with Armbian by default.

Login as root and type:

armbian-config

• system
  • install to SATA, eMMC, NAND or USB
  • freeze and unfreeze kernel and BSP upgrades
  • switching between available kernels and nightly builds
  • edit boot environment
  • reconfigure board settings with DT overlays or FEX (Allwinner legacy)
  • select dedicated DTB (Solidrun i.MX6 and Odroid XU4/HC1/HC2 boards)
  • adjust SSH daemon features
  • 3G/4G LTE modem management
  • run apt update and upgrade
  • toggle BASH/ZSH with Oh My ZSH and tmux
  • toggle desktop and login manager (desktop builds)
  • adjusting the display resolution (some boards)
  • enabling read only root filesystem (Ubuntu)
• network
  • select dynamic or static IP address
  • hotspot management. Automatic detection of: nl80211, realtek, 802.11n, 802.11a and 802.11ac
  • iperf3. Toggle bandwidth measuring server
  • connect to wireless
  • install IR support
  • install support, pair and connect Bluetooth devices
  • edit IFUPDOWN interfaces
• personal
  • change timezone, languages and hostname
  • select welcome screen items
• software
  • softy
    • TV headend (IPTV server)
    • Syncthing (personal cloud)
    • SoftEther VPN server (VPN server)
    • Plex (Plex media server)
    • Emby (Emby media server)
    • Radarr (Movie downloading server)
    • Sonarr (TV shows downloading server)
    • Transmission (torrent server)
    • ISPConfig (WEB & MAIL server)
    • NCP (Nextcloud personal cloud)
    • Openmediavault NAS (NAS server)
    • OpenHab2 (Smarthome suite)
    • Home Assistant (Smarthome suite within Docker)
    • PI hole (ad blocker)
    • UrBackup (client/server backup system)
    • Docker (Docker CE engine)
    • Mayan EDMS (Document management system within Docker)
    • MiniDLNA (media sharing)
  • monitoring tools
  • create diagnostics report
  • toggle kernel headers, RDP service, Thunderbird and LibreOffice (desktop builds)
• help
  • Links to documentation, support and sources

Run this utility on 3rd party Debian based distributions

    sudo wget https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key -O key
    sudo gpg --dearmor < key | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg > /dev/null
    sudo chmod go+r /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg
    sudo echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] https://apt.armbian.com $(lsb_release -cs) main  $(lsb_release -cs)-utils  $(lsb_release -cs)-desktop" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
    apt update
    apt install armbian-config

Development version:

# Install dependencies
apt install git iperf3 psmisc curl bc expect dialog network-manager sunxi-tools \
debconf-utils unzip dirmngr software-properties-common psmisc jq

git clone https://github.com/armbian/config
cd config
bash debian-config

* no longer supported