FreedomBox is a pure blend of Debian. This means that all the work on FreedomBox is available in Debian as packages. It also means that any machine running Debian can be turned into a FreedomBox.
This page describes the process of installing FreedomBox on a Debian system. Currently, FreedomBox currently runs Debian Unstable (Sid) and Debian Testing (Strech).
Use a fresh Debian installation
Installing FreedomBox changes your Debian system in many important ways. This includes installing a firewall and regenerating server certificates. It is hence recommended that you install FreedomBox on a fresh Debian installation instead of an existing setup.
Installing on Debian
Install Debian Unstable (Sid) on your hardware.
If you choose to create an initial user account, use "fbx" as the login name. (Once the FreedomBox setup program completes, all user accounts except for the "fbx" account will be locked out via pam_access. This also affects sudo access.)
- Update your package list.
$ sudo apt-get update
Install freedombox-setup package.
$ sudo apt-get install freedombox-setup
Run FreedomBox setup program. This installs further packages and sets up basic configuration.
$ sudo /usr/lib/freedombox/setup | tee freedombox-setup.log
- Reboot the system. This is necessary to trigger the first-run script.
$ sudo reboot
- After the system boots up, wait for it to reboot again. The first-run scripts sets up a few things and initiates a reboot.
After the second reboot you can start ?using FreedomBox.
Troubleshooting
1. There is a bug in policykit-1 package that causes errors and hangs during installation of freedombox-setup package. A workaround is to first install policykit-1 package and then reboot. After that, follow the above procedure setup procedure.
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install policykit-1 $ sudo reboot
Intro |
Information |
Support |
Contribute |
Reports |
Promote |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
HELP & DISCUSSIONS: Discussion Forum - Matrix - Mailing List - #freedombox irc.debian.org | CONTACT Foundation | JOIN Project
Next call: Saturday, April 13 at 14:00 UTC
This page is copyright its contributors and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
See the Debian logo page for information on its copyright.