Help running homarr in proxmox container (lxc)

Thalf

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Hi I'm new here

I want to ask if I can set up Homarr directly in a Proxmox container (lxc) - and if anyone has a link please share
 
Thank you - thats very helpfull! thanks!:cool:
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 system

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.
 
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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 system

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 :-P 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!


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