HoustonUI install on Proxmox

[rephormat]

Is there a guide or script similar to ubuntu-preconfig.sh that will install HoustonUI on Proxmox as it is intended and demoed on the Youtube Tech Tuesday videos?

[rymandle05]

Hello and welcome @rephormat! I’m not aware of one, but, in an older forum post, I did some testing around this topic. I was able to successfully install HoustonUI via the setup script from 45drives repo on Proxmox 8.2. Link to that specific part of the forum post is included below.

Proxmox on HL15

Just to confirm, you are running the script below, correct? curl -sSL https://repo.45drives.com/setup | sudo bash I was able to run it successfully on a fresh install of proxmox 8.2 in a VM. However, I first had to apt install lsb_release which the script uses to check your version of Debian. Since 8.2 is built on Debian Bookworm, the script will ask if you want to use “focal”. Enter “Y” to move forward and it will setup the 45Drives repo. Proxmox 8 and Debian Bookworm are technically not sup…

[rephormat]

Hi! Something must’ve changed with Proxmox 8.3 as the ubuntu-preconfig.sh script fails on enabling network-manager.service. I will try installing Proxmox 8.2 and report back.

[rymandle05]

I believe the service name for network manager changed on newer Ubuntu versions which was causing the 45Drives script to fail. Maybe that happened with Debian and Proxmox 8.3 too? A while back, I worked on getting Ubuntu script to work with Ubuntu 22.04. Maybe this will work for you on Proxmox 8.3?

Unofficial Ubuntu 22.04 45Drives Cockpit Install

Updated script with a few improvements… Check for Ubuntu 22.04 before executing Install cockpit via backports to obtain the latest version Disable systemd-networkd-wait-online after installing and setting up NetworkManager