Here is a link from a relatively well-known source. https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=homarr
Please note that you should check any script before executing it - as you could do damage to your server.
I have never used the above link - use at your own discretion.
ALWAYS HAVE FULL & RESTORABLE BACKUPS!
Please note that you should check any script before executing it - as you could do damage to your server.
I have never used the above link - use at your own discretion.
ALWAYS HAVE FULL & RESTORABLE BACKUPS!
It's not, at least in my book. Like gfngfn256 explained it's not a good idea to execute scripts without understanding what they are doings since in case a bad actor took over the download source you could have uninvited visitors on your systemThank you - thats very helpfull! thanks!
So I consider helper scripts actually not very helpful for newbies at all : They abstract the complexity behind the setup away which means that the users assume that they can get away with not doing much system administration. But at some point (some sooner, some later) they run into problems and can't resolve them since they don't know where to start. If they would have done the setup manually or by understanding the how the script works and changing it to their wishes they at least would have an idea where to start.
At least if the goal is to get some services running. For learning shell programming and system administration they are a great ressource: Read a script, try to understand how it works. Tweak it, look whether your changes work like you expected. Rince, repeat. But this doesn't seem what most people use them for.
Back to homarr: The documentation doesn't look too hard for me, it should be easy to follow it if you have a Linux VM with docker or podman installed:
https://homarr.dev/docs/getting-started/installation
But if you don't want to do much system administration (which I totally understand) you might be better of with a NAS OS with docker support.
Thanks for the time you spend on writing all of that! - im still lerarning and i understand the most, but i was running it in portainer, but i woult like to seperate all of my stuff in 1 container 1 software... so pihole on oner and Homarr on another :-D but im not sure if you can run it without docker or or posman.. i have a nas and i have 1 server to run linux on
but agian thanks for your time!As I said above I don't use Homarr & have never installed it.
Skimming through their installation docs - it appears their advised approach to installation is through docker/compose. I must add here - that if I were to choose that route I would use a VM for that. Docker in an LXC can have it's challenges & difficulties (search these forums & others!).
I glanced through the above mentioned script - & they appear to install from source - something that Homarr docs does not recommend, see here.
If you have Home Assistant (HAOS) then you could install it as an add on - see here.
As already mentioned above - any installation is a learning process which will surely help in the future - & don't do anything blindly!
ALWAYS HAVE FULL & RESTORABLE BACKUPS!
Skimming through their installation docs - it appears their advised approach to installation is through docker/compose. I must add here - that if I were to choose that route I would use a VM for that. Docker in an LXC can have it's challenges & difficulties (search these forums & others!).
I glanced through the above mentioned script - & they appear to install from source - something that Homarr docs does not recommend, see here.
If you have Home Assistant (HAOS) then you could install it as an add on - see here.
As already mentioned above - any installation is a learning process which will surely help in the future - & don't do anything blindly!
ALWAYS HAVE FULL & RESTORABLE BACKUPS!
If someone else has come across this thread in 2025, the Proxmox LXC install script for Homarr pulls an old fork of Homarr (ajnart). Current development is on the homarr-labs repo.
I followed the source code installation method to the letter, as outlined in the Homarr documentation. But get a generic error 134 when attempting `pnpm build`.
So I tried the portainer installation, using the community alpine docker script. This works to install it, but my LXC is on a vlan and uses a DNS. I feel like I've tried everything in the portainer configs to get the stack communicating with my other services on the same vlan as the host. I tried creating iplan and maclan networks in portainer, and specifying my DNS in the container configuration but no luck.
I have opened an issue on the proxmox helper script repo, and a maintainer has indicated intent to update the script so maybe we will see....
I followed the source code installation method to the letter, as outlined in the Homarr documentation. But get a generic error 134 when attempting `pnpm build`.
So I tried the portainer installation, using the community alpine docker script. This works to install it, but my LXC is on a vlan and uses a DNS. I feel like I've tried everything in the portainer configs to get the stack communicating with my other services on the same vlan as the host. I tried creating iplan and maclan networks in portainer, and specifying my DNS in the container configuration but no luck.
I have opened an issue on the proxmox helper script repo, and a maintainer has indicated intent to update the script so maybe we will see....
Last edited:
The better solution would be to ditch the ill-advised idea of running docker inside a lxc since this is known to break after updates. There are more than one thread on this forum of people running into issues.
For this and othercreadons ProxmoxVE developers recommend running docker in a VM: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container
So I would setup a lightweight VM with Alpine or Debian as OS and portainer, will je much less trouble over all.
I'm also disapointed that the helper scripts project encourages docker-in-lxc Setups and I'm tempted to create an issue to ditch this specific helper script for good.
On the other hand I doubt that it will have much of an effect
For this and othercreadons ProxmoxVE developers recommend running docker in a VM: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container
So I would setup a lightweight VM with Alpine or Debian as OS and portainer, will je much less trouble over all.
I'm also disapointed that the helper scripts project encourages docker-in-lxc Setups and I'm tempted to create an issue to ditch this specific helper script for good.
On the other hand I doubt that it will have much of an effect