[Solved] Linux install

@slauf: No, there is currently no "installer" available for eBlocker.

There are only images for the RasPi SD-Cards to install

regards

Sven

That's too bad. I'm afraid I don't have a RasPi. Is it planned that you can install eblocker manually.

Regards

@slauf With the core team we have no such plans at the moment. But maybe some developer from the community (you?) want to drive this.

@random

Is there a (full) list of components, which are needed to be installed (on an clean/fresh RaspbianBuster) and configured or do we have to fetch it by reverse engineering everything what is in the image?

I would like to help, creating an "installer", because RasPi 4 is too powerfull for only using it with eBlocker alone 🙂

regards

Sven

@slauf

We've discussed this topic in the community meeting last Friday. Since today eBlocker relies heavily on components of the underlying OS, we came to the conclusion that it's too much effort for "unbundling" this from the eBlocker core. 

Today eBlocker runs very well on mini computers (i.e. Raspberry Pi) and with the core team we've decided to focus on a "Raspi only" strategy in future.

Of course we'd like to invite other developers to move forward with a generic linux install if anyone wants to take this road. Just let us know...

@benne, Hi I am new to this forum, but I was currently trying to install EBlocker using sources from GitHub https://github.com/eblocker , only running in a small issue in the last stage of making the mvn test run on eblocker, while running it states "Failed to execute goal on project eblocker-icapserver: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.eblocker:eblocker-icapserver:jar:2.5-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find org.eblocker:eblocker-crypto:jar:2.7.0 in http://4thline.org/m2/ was cached in the local repository..

That is the only thing, and some configuration to create a own install of eblocker.
I love the idea of Eblocker, but currently with the Locked Down OS of EBlocker a Raspberry PI is complete reserved for that use, and I would like to have some other things on the side, and see if I can develop some other configurations arround eblocker as well.

Any other way of installing the sources myself, instead of using the Raspberry Pi Image, since that does not allow SSH Access or have any valid login credentials.

@calimero I started using the https://github.com/eblocker repositories and was well underway in installing it, but then ran into a roadblock..

I am also interested in making a manual install for Raspberry besides being dependent on an Image, which makes the raspberry not available for any other services I would like to install.

@razrbld Sorry, I‘m not a developer (anymore) but if you want access you need to take the way via file system / sd card... That‘s all I know 😎 

@bpr might can help in terms of the dependency?

My personal opinion: If you are serious about speed just run eBlockerOS. Everything else will slow it down, reduce bandwidth and might introduce security issues. But on a development device... of corse...

Nevertheless, developers are always welcome. We got lots of ideas and and would be happy if you want to join us. First test is gaining root access 😉 

Hi @razrbld,

the branch "release/2.5" was not yet merged into "develop". I have done that now.

Please pull from project https://github.com/eblocker/eblocker and run Maven again.

Hello

Is it possible to install eblocker on a existing Linux installation? I would like to avoid buying another Pi. Not that I would not like them but I already have three of them...

@marco_ I‘ve merged your topic to this existing one as it answers your question.

BTW: There is a forum search on the right hand side bar that helps answering most questions... 🤔 😉 

THX! 

@random Thanks alot, I tried to follow those instructions but ran into errors. I think I'm gonna buy another pi then.... Thanks anyway

@marco_

I think it is a better way to use a PI. So you have for privacy and security a dedicated
system. So you can get support over the community and it is well working 👍 

🍓

regards

PIO78

@slauf Update: you can now install eBlockerOS in a virtual machine running on linux.

THX!