Install Home Assistant on Raspbian Stretch with Desktop?

Installation
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I am currently using Hass.io but I want to use the Pi for more than just Home Assistant so went to look at the AIO installer and it says it is now deprecated (which I think is a shame). The current installation guide says “This installation of Home Assistant requires the Raspberry Pi to run Raspbian Lite”. What happens if you install on Raspian Stretch with Desktop?

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Why not run normal raspbian and install docker?

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This is a minimum configuration. It will work fine with the desktop installed as well.

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Why not run normal raspbian and install docker?

What is the benefit of that? Is there a guide to do that?

This is a minimum configuration. It will work fine with the desktop installed as well.

Thanks, the way it says requires makes it sound like it won’t work with anything else.

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The benefit would be that you get to run a full desktop and hassio or just the docker container for HASS, without having to worry about package dependencies and versions…

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Thanks, that sounds good, i will give it a try.

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You can just follow the instructions on the dev guide and install as with any normal python package. Cheers