Error installing proxmenux on 2 out of 4 hosts

[FrancWest]

Hi,

on 2 out of my 4 hosts I'm unable to install ProxMenux. When the installation starts it errors out with:

Installing ProxMenux: Step 1 of 5

-Installing basic dependencies.
✓ jq, dialog, curl and git installed successfully.

Installing ProxMenux: Step 2 of 5

-Install ProxMenux repository
[ERROR] Failed to clone repository from https://github.com/MacRimi/ProxMenux.git

Any idea how to fix this?

Frank.

[FabioRowedder]

Same problem here, but I found out that the git needs to be previously installed to work.

[FrancWest]

Manually installing git before executing the install command indeed worked. Weird, since in step 1 the script reports that git was installed successfully.

[MacRimi]

Hi everyone, the part of the installer that handles dependency installation currently works like this:

BASIC_DEPS=("dialog" "curl" "git")
for pkg in "${BASIC_DEPS[@]}"; do
    if ! dpkg -l | grep -qw "$pkg"; then
        if apt-get install -y "$pkg" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
            update_config "$pkg" "installed"
        else
            msg_error "Failed to install $pkg. Please install it manually."
            update_config "$pkg" "failed"
            return 1
        fi
    else
        update_config "$pkg" "already_installed"
    fi
done

However, it seems that on some systems git is not being installed correctly.
I’m going to modify this part to reinforce the installation process and ensure that git is installed independently, making sure it is available before starting the repository cloning step.

[FrancWest]

ok, great! Thanks.

[noxen89]

Any news on this ? I'm getting the same error, how do you install git manually ?

[MacRimi]

Hi,

If you're getting an error when trying to install git (for example: Unable to locate package git), it's very likely that your Proxmox system does not have the no-subscription repository enabled.

By default, Proxmox enables the Enterprise repository, which requires a valid subscription. If you don’t have one, apt update will fail silently and you won’t be able to install common packages like git.

Please verify the following:

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1. Disable the Enterprise Repository

Edit this file:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list

Comment out the existing line by adding # at the beginning:

# deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm pve-enterprise

Save and exit.

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2. Enable the No-Subscription Repository

Create (or edit) this file:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-subscription.list

Add the following line:

deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm pve-no-subscription

Save and exit.

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3. Ensure Debian Repositories Are Present

Edit your main sources list:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Make sure it includes:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib

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4. Update and Install Git

Run:

apt update
apt install git -y

After this, Git should install without issues.

Let me know if you still encounter any errors.