rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhy is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?message-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down131
arrow-up1-5arrow-down1message-squareWhy is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareTolookahlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·2 months agoLook into “install home assistant core” on https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux
minus-squarerah@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down17·edit-22 months agoThat’s manual installation which is (a) not distro packages and (b) exactly what distro packages are created to avoid.
minus-squarestatic09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoMaybe I’m just old school and distro package means something different to me, but here is a link to the Home Assistant .deb distro package: https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/releases/latest/download/homeassistant-supervised.deb
minus-squarerah@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·edit-22 months ago the Home Assistant .deb distro package Firstly, that’s a .deb but it’s not from a distro. Secondly, that .deb doesn’t contain Home Assistant, it contains some “Supervised” which runs the Home Assistant Docker container: https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/blob/8dbfda2221b955dc810827285c5ac874eb0b70d9/homeassistant-supervised/usr/bin/ha#L10
Look into “install home assistant core” on https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux
That’s manual installation which is (a) not distro packages and (b) exactly what distro packages are created to avoid.
Maybe I’m just old school and distro package means something different to me, but here is a link to the Home Assistant .deb distro package:
https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/releases/latest/download/homeassistant-supervised.deb
Firstly, that’s a .deb but it’s not from a distro. Secondly, that .deb doesn’t contain Home Assistant, it contains some “Supervised” which runs the Home Assistant Docker container:
https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/blob/8dbfda2221b955dc810827285c5ac874eb0b70d9/homeassistant-supervised/usr/bin/ha#L10