[TUTORIAL] Proxmox VE Installer on Debian 12 Bookworm

Dear Mathewalves,

thank you so much for your explanation. I went through the process successfully and when I start cmd, I got the following output:


Code:
Welcome, workstation!

     ____  _________  _  ______ ___  ____  _  __
    / __ \/ ___/ __ \| |/_/ __ `__ \/ __ \| |/_/
   / /_/ / /  / /_/ />  </ / / / / / /_/ />  <
  / .___/_/   \____/_/|_/_/ /_/ /_/\____/_/|_|  https://pve.proxmox.com/
 /_/            

 

`.-::---..                     workstation@VM-Server
      .:++++ooooosssoo:.       ---------------------
    .+o++::.      `.:oos+.     OS: LMDE 6 (faye) x86_64
   :oo:.`             -+oo:    Host: PowerEdge T320
 `+o/`    .::::::-.    .++-`   Kernel: 6.8.12-20-pve
`/s/    .yyyyyyyyyyo:   +o-`   Uptime: 1 hour, 11 mins
`so     .ss       ohyo` :s-:   Packages: 2798 (dpkg)
`s/     .ss  h  m  myy/ /s``   Shell: bash 5.2.15
`s:     `oo  s  m  Myy+-o:`    Resolution: 1600x1200
`oo      :+sdoohyoydyso/.      DE: Cinnamon 6.4.8
 :o.      .:////////++:        WM: Mutter (Muffin)
 `/++        -:::::-           WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua (Mint-Y)
  `++-                         Theme: Mint-Y-Dark [GTK2/3]
   `/+-                        Icons: Mint-Y [GTK2/3]
     .+/.                      Terminal: gnome-terminal
       .:+-.                   CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 (20) @ 3.200GHz
          `--.``               GPU: 06:00.0 Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. G20
                               Memory: 1689MiB / 32037MiB

                                                     
                                                     



  +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |      To access the Proxmox interface, open a browser and type:      |
 ###                    https://192.168.***.***:8006/                  ###
  |               User: root | Password: (root password)                |
  +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

But, when I try to open proxmox with my browser, it says, it is noch reachable. Wheter I do it from PC in the same network, or with the server itself.

I hope you or anybody else can help to solve that issue.

Kind regads, Volker
Hard to tell. The Proxmox installation on Debian isn't really designed for a desktop environment. I suspect there is some sort of firewall enabled that could be blocking port 8006, which is the port used by the web interface.
 
Hard to tell. The Proxmox installation on Debian isn't really designed for a desktop environment. I suspect there is some sort of firewall enabled that could be blocking port 8006, which is the port used by the web interface.

So I misunderstood that thread... cause I thought "... on Debian 12 Bookworm" means a desktop environment. I use LMDE6 at my Dell Server. Actually Virtualbox is in use for VM (Win7, Win11,...) and the performance is not as good as expected. That's why I wanted to try to build VM's with Proxmox.

Finally I figured out, the problem was the configuration in hosts.
 
it's stuck here
╭─ Downloading… ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Total Packages: 0/111 │
│ Starting Downloads… │
│ Time Remaining: -:--:-- ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0.0% • 0.0/49.9 MB • ? │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
 
it's stuck here

Are you trying this on Bookworm? Bookworm will reach end of regular support on the 11th July2026, then ProxmoxVE8 also won't get any other updates.

You should try to install ProxmoxVE9 (with the regular installer or by installing on Debian Trixie)
 
Are you trying this on Bookworm? Bookworm will reach end of regular support on the 11th July2026, then ProxmoxVE8 also won't get any other updates.

You should try to install ProxmoxVE9 (with the regular installer or by installing on Debian Trixie)
yeah its bookworm