RPi Easy SD Card Setup - eLinux.org

The GPIO pins connect directly into the core of the ARM processer, and are staticsensitive,
so you should avoid touching the pins wherever possible. If you are carrying a
static charge, for example by taking off an acrylic pullover, or walking across a nylon
carpet, touching the GPIO pins could destroy your R-Pi, so always earth yourself before
touching the pins or anything connected to them.
General
The time is incorrect
If the clock is off by a series of hours, in the command line type:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
The R-Pi has no real-time clock, so unless it can access a timeserver over the network at
boot, or time is manually entered by the user, the time/date will restart counting from the
last logged time in the previous session.
A part broke off
The silver cylinder near the microUSB power input is a 220 uF capacitor ("C6" on
schematic). It sticks up and due to the small surface-mount pads, it is easy to break off;
several people have done so. This is a power supply filter capacitor which reduces any
noise and spikes on the input +5V power. If you like, you can solder it back on, or just
leave it off. If you do solder it back on, take care to observe the correct polarity with the
black stripe towards the board edge. This part, C6 is a "just in case" component which is
good design practice to include, but as it turns out (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4926%7C) most power supplies still work OK without this part
installed. This part is also discussed here (http://elinux.org/
RPi_Hardware#Capacitor_C6) .
Unable to install new software
When trying to install a software package (using the command sudo apt-get install xxxx)
you may see the error
Package yyyy is not available
This means that your software list is out of date. Before attempting to install software,
you should always make sure that you are using the latest software list by using the
command