Help installing Unifi Controller on Debian 10

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Hello Lawrence,

I got old PC that I loaded Raspberry Pi OS desktop on. I am looking to use this as my Unif Network Controller, Pi-Hole and maybe have VPN working on. TBH. This is my first hand with Linux and I am totally out of my comfort zone!

I am struggling to get the Unifi Network Controller installed. Although I have downloaded the app on the Unifi site, ran Sudo -i to install the file, and got a prompt saying Java is not present. I’m even having a hard time install Java.

I am not sure if it’s because I am doing all this through the GUI interface and not SSH? Are there any documentation you could share to guide me through this?

Thank you,
Tommy

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You can try this site that has a tutorial

I have not tried it but a few have said this script is helpul
https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Installation-Scripts-or-UniFi-Easy-Update-Script-or-UniFi-Lets-Encrypt-or-UniFi-Easy-Encrypt-/ccbc7530-dd61-40a7-82ec-22b17f027776

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@LTS_Tom can vouch for the setup script from Glenn R. Have been using this bash script for production systems for about 3 or 4 years now. Works well and has an update script too. Controller setup and update on many popular Linux distros including Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and others

Home page is here
https://glennr.nl/s/unifi-network-controller

UniFi Forums post here
https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Installation-Scripts-or-UniFi-Easy-Update-Script-or-UniFi-Lets-Encrypt-or-UniFi-Easy-Encrypt-/ccbc7530-dd61-40a7-82ec-22b17f027776