Installing Hassio on Debian 10

bat17 · August 17, 2019, 11:49am

I am trying to install Hassio on Debian 10 Buster.

Running as root to do the installation
Docker has installed OK
Running

root@headless:/home/bat17#  apt-get install \
>   apparmor-utils \
>   avahi-daemon \
>   dbus \
>   jq \
>   network-manager \
>   socat

Gives me the following warning.

Setting up network-manager (1.14.6-2) ...
The following network interfaces were found in /etc/network/interfaces
which means they are currently configured by ifupdown:
- enp0s25
If you want to manage those interfaces with NetworkManager instead
remove their configuration from /etc/network/interfaces.

And the message

avahi-daemon is already the newest version (0.7-4+b1).
avahi-daemon set to manually installed.

Running
curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio -installer/master/hassio_install.sh" | bash -s
gives the error
[Error] Please install avahi first

Avahi is installed, so I am wondering if the problem is actually related to the NetworkManager issue noted above.

I am new to Linux so not keen to experiment to much and break something!

Thanks for any help you can give

peter

damien · August 19, 2019, 4:06pm

I am having the same issue and have not found any solution yet.

HASS.IO is currently running in my house on a Debian 9.5 VM hosted in Win10 HyperV. Just got my hands on a better PC and was trying to bypass Win10 and dedicate a Debian OS for HASS.IO. May need to go down to 9.5 Stretch.

bat17 · August 19, 2019, 4:21pm

Thanks for the info.

I am just playing with this at the moment so if I don’t get any better ideas I may just try things and see what happens. Worst case is I break it and have to reinstall with 9.5 which is no great loss as I am using it on an old laptop which is dedicated for this experiment

Peter

AdmiralRaccoon · August 23, 2019, 8:57am

I have the same Issue when trying to install Hassio on my NUC.

Weird: Bevor installing to the NUC, I installed it within a Hyper-V VM with Debian 10, and that worked. Could it be Hardware related?

AdmiralRaccoon · August 23, 2019, 9:32am

Well, actually I don´t know what I have done. I reinstalled the requirements, although every component told me that it was already installed and uptodate. Then, I used the script

curl -sL “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-installer/master/hassio_install.sh” | bash -s – -m intel-nuc

and it workd suddenly.

Elevarion · September 8, 2019, 2:56am

For anyone who comes across this issue at a later time, here is the cause and the solution.

It appears a change was made in Debian 10 in how the su command works when switching to root. It does not seem to correctly set PATH on login. This causes a lot of things to fail in weird ways, including the detection for the avahi-daemon package.

Details on the missing Path.
https://linuxconfig.org/command-not-found-missing-path-to-sbin-on-debian-gnu-linux

Quick Fix:
Use “su -” to switch to the root user. This set the PATH correctly and the install now worked without issue.

Now can I have the hour back it took to figure that out…

DavidFW1960 · September 8, 2019, 4:06am

I can’t login as root anyway… su -l asks for a password and I never set a root password.

I can run commands as sudo
Also if I do sudo su… it logs me in as root anyway. I originally (on stretch) used sudo with the command to install hassio…

Akriss · September 8, 2019, 5:59am

I hit that small bump as well with avahi-daemon wile installing Hass.io on a clearfog base.

The way I got around it was to download the install script and comment out the line:

command -v avahi-daemon > /dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "[Error] Please install avahi first"; exit 1; }

Then run the script. No problems after that.

One more way to get around the bump.

Hope its of help.

SamBGB · December 23, 2019, 6:52pm

Thanks this fixed that issue for me.

ellisbjohns · January 8, 2020, 5:22am

This also worked for me when installing on debian 10. Thanks

tbhova · March 5, 2020, 4:13am

This might be a better solution:

Debian installs avahi-daemon in a different location.

For me the path was /usr/sbin. This can be found with whereis avahi-daemon

So, I added it to my PATH using:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

Now command -v avahi-daemon resolves properly.

krakers · March 7, 2020, 7:50pm

Thanks a lot. That actually solved the problem in my case.

andriej · March 23, 2020, 8:04am

How about to set this PATH like that in installation script, so all Debian 10 users won’t face same issue?

tbhova · April 27, 2020, 4:34am

I submitted a pull request on GitHub, but they rejected it saying they’re working on a more permanent solution.

nodecentral · May 1, 2020, 10:59am

Hi,

Having just installed Debian 10 on a VM (via QNAP Virtulisation Station), I thought I’d have a go at installing HASS.IO - however, following the installation instructions - https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/ - it’s not clear if I’m supposed to run the very first command or not for Debian (admittedly it only references Ubuntu)

sudo add-apt-repository universe

Becuase when I run it, it returns this - “error ‘universe’ invalid”

I know great start hey?! - but what did you guys do ?

francisp · May 1, 2020, 11:09am

Because that is not a debian repository, but a ubuntu one. So no need to run it.

DavidFW1960 · May 1, 2020, 11:09am

Doesn’t it specifically say Ubuntu only for that package?

nodecentral · May 1, 2020, 6:04pm

Yep, agreed hence why I mentioned that in my post; just curious as Ubuntu is a distribution based on Debian, i’m never quite sure where the line is drawn, as I’ve often used Ubuntu guides to install/configure things on my Debian builds.

nodecentral · May 2, 2020, 10:52am

Hi,

Following the installation instructions for Debian, does anyone have any idea how I progress further , I can’t seem to get Docker installed

root@debian-NR:~# curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh
# Executing docker install script, commit: 442e66405c304fa92af8aadaa1d9b31bf4b0ad94
+ sh -c apt-get update -qq >/dev/null
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5E64E247262C4500
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease' is not signed.
root@debian-NR:~# curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/master/installer.sh" | bash -s
[Error] Please install docker first

nodecentral · May 2, 2020, 8:36pm

Run the following command and adding the PUBKEY provided in the earlier error message worked for me -

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5E64E247262C4500