Umbrel on Debian 12?

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I just installed Debian 12.0 Bookwork to install umbrel 0.5.3, after I had it in debian 11, but when I run the umbrel curl script to install the umbrel server; half after the process I got an external environment error referring to the python3.

It is a known error that since debian 12.0 is so new, the umbrel script does not work or there is a walk-through to fix that?

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Can you please give us the complete error message?

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Same here. Clean Debian 12 install. This is the error message:

error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.

If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.

See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information.

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

¡Thanks!

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That’s exactly the error I’ve got every time I try to install umbrel with debian 12.

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same error here, waiting for a response

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The problem is that python is managed by debian.

More information and a fix for this can be found on stackoverflow python - How do I solve "error: externally-managed-environment" every time I use pip 3? - Stack Overflow

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My plan is also to setup a new node on debian.

So I can provide a answer to this next week or so :slight_smile:

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Bump into this with Ubuntu 23.04;

If this is a single purpose node, probably just:

sudo sh -c 'echo "PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1" >> /etc/environment'

To bypass the PEP 668 at system-wide level.

Gather some notes in this gist

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Any updates on this?

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It’s all screwed up at the moment. You can fix pip with:

sudo mv /usr/lib/python3.11/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED /usr/lib/python3.11/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED.old

… but installation of docker is currently borked. lol

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I still cannot get Umbrel to install on Debian 12. It appears they’ve updated the installation script, and it definitely proceeds further, but still craps out:

Configuration successful
You can now start Umbrel by running:
  sudo ./scripts/start


======================================
============= STARTING ===============
============== UMBREL ================
======================================

Setting environment variables...

Starting karen...

Starting status monitors...
Starting memory monitor...

Starting backup monitor...

Starting decoy backup trigger...

Starting umbreld...


Starting Docker services...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.29.2', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 202, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1128, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1137, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'compose.cli'; 'compose' is not a package
Failed to start containers
Skipping status update when not on Umbrel OS
root@Umbrel:~#
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Okay… sooooo… Is this community dead or what? Has anyone yet been successful in getting Umbrel to install on Debian 12?

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Hi @ctrlbreak

Can you please try the following
For a workaround I found this one the easiest way:

  1. Run the command (this will add all the repos needed)
    curl -L https://umbrel.sh | bash
  2. After the error manually install Docker and docker-compose:

sudo apt install docker docker-compose

  1. Install Umbrel without docker:

curl -L https://umbrel.sh | bash -s -- --no-install-docker --no-install-compose

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Actually neither with Debian 12.1, nor with Ubuntu 23.04 is working. If we want to use Umbrel we need an older version of Debian.

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Nope. Same issue.

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Well, that’s unfortunate.

I was curious enough to allocate resources and stand up a VM to try this out. This is about the limit of effort/cycles I have to check out this project, and I’m not spinning up another one.

I’ll wait until it installs and runs properly on Debian 12 it appears. I’ll check back in a month perhaps.

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Sorry to hear that. If it’s just a VM, I’ve never had any issues setting it up with Debian 11 or Ubuntu 22 LTS- easy as pie