HA Dashboard install on Ubuntu 14.04

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This is how I have done it. Maybe this helps others, and saves a couple of headaches for those who are not familiar with ruby at all.

I am not getting into installing ubuntu, nor HA, these should already been done if you are reading this.

If you try to follow the instructions on the github page you will run into some errors (as Andrew suggests is btw) But they will only come out at the end of the install process…

If you have tried to install HA Dashboard with the standard Ubuntu 14.04 ruby pack - like me - (and you are not using the installed ruby for anything else) remove it!
sudo apt-get purge ruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.1-dev libruby1.9.1

then delete the following directories by hand (mc actually):

  • .gem in your home directory
  • hadashboard directory (the one that git cloned)
  • /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 directory

Do not forget to run everything under a regular user with sudo, because if you are trying to install hadashboard as root, then the last step (running bundle) will give you an error that you can not run bundle as root. I you skip the sudo then you will get gem install errors.

Then add the following repository:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
sudo apt-get update

Install ruby 2.3, because when running bundler will install do_sqlite3, and unirest gem, and both require ruby > 2.0
sudo apt-get install ruby2.3 ruby2.3-dev nodejs libsqlite3-dev

After that you can follow the original instructions:

git clone https://github.com/home-assistant/hadashboard.git
cd hadashboard
sudo gem install dashing
sudo gem install dashing
bundle

thats all folks!

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Thanks a lot for your help here. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS so is this still good?
And if I don’t have Ruby installed at all do you think this following is enough to get installed HADashboard?
Appreciate your help.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ruby2.3 ruby2.3-dev nodejs libsqlite3-dev
git clone https://github.com/home-assistant/hadashboard.git
cd hadashboard
sudo gem install dashing
sudo gem install dashing
bundle
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As I have checked it 16.04 still does not have ruby > 2.0, but you should run an “apt-get update” first, and then check with “sudo aptitude search ruby2 | less” if you have the correct version.

If no, then the above should suffice for you as well because it is not 14.04 specific. If the above aptitude command does show you packages ruby2.x and ruby2.x-dev, then you do not need to add the brightbox repository.

And yes the above steps are enough to get hadashboard installed. But you still have to configure it :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the clarification, appreciate it.