Ubiquiti Unifi Controller on XU4

[ark74]

Hi Armbian Users

I'm french, so excuse my poor english

 

I'm having hard times installing Ubiquiti Unifi Controller on Armbian (running on a XU4)

Armbian version :  Armbian_5.59_Odroidxu4_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.66

 

I followed different tutorial, but no luck with those no brain tutorial. I must be retarded 

MongoDB is giving me a hard time, broken dependencies and so on.

 

I understood that some managed to do it with Armbian based on Ubuntu. No luck eitheir for me.

I did add the mongodb repository for 3.6 version, which support arm64 architecture.

Apt never gave me the ability to install the mongodb-org package and dependencies for this package.

 

A few links : 

https://github.com/aryonp/unifi/blob/master/install_unifi_odroid_xu4.sh

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/ (followed the ubuntu 16.04 tutorial)

https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=22850

https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/220066768-UniFi-How-to-Install-Update-via-APT-on-Debian-or-Ubuntu

 

I could have left that here, but no..

 

My armbian.list :

deb http://apt.armbian.com stretch main stretch-utils stretch-desktop
# deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian stretch/mongodb-org/4.0 main
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse
# deb [arch=amd64,arm64] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch main contrib non-free rpi

The few commands that goes with it :

 

apt-add-repository  ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys EEA14886

wget http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian.public.key
apt-key add raspbian.public.key

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/unifi-repo.gpg https://dl.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-repo.gpg

apt update
apt install unifi
apt install oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-set-default oracle-java8-unlimited-jce-policy
systemctl enable unifi
systemctl disable mongodb
systemctl stop mongodb
/etc/init.d/unifi start

I end up with a Unifi Controller 5.8.30 working on Armbian (Debian), but...

MongoDB is in version 2.4 and comes from raspbian repository ?

 

Any thought on this ?

Should I go an other way ?

 

Thank you

Edited October 2, 2018 by ark74
missing info

[chrisf]

XU4 is 32bit, not 64bit.

You need armhf, not arm64

[ark74]

Hi,

 

I see your point, rookie mistake

Thanks.

As far as I know, there is no official package or ripository on MongoDB side for armhf.

 

Sooo, if I want mongoDB up to date, I have to either :

- Compile MongoDB myself on the XU4. Will Unifi be able to find it during installation with Apt (I see broken dependencies from a mile away) ?

- Switch to Arch Linux, to which I understand nothing for now...

 

Or, I'm just going to production with this old thingy..

I'm right ?

[chrisf]

I have unifi running on an hc1 and I dont recall any issues. When I get home I'll see if I have time to post how I did it.

 

This is the apt source I used

# cat 100-ubnt-unifi.list
deb http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti

 The only other sources I have is armbian 

 

Edit: my mongodb-server package is from debian

# apt-cache showpkg mongodb-server
Package: mongodb-server
Versions:
1:2.4.10-5+deb8u1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie_main_binary-armhf_Packages)

 

Edited October 4, 2018 by chrisf

[ark74]

Hi Chris,

 

Thanks for your time and research.

 

I've checked the packages list for armhf on jessie and stretch repository (debian repos, not armbian).

The mongodb-server package is only listed on the jessie repository.

It should explain why with a brand new install of armbian stretch, I have missing dependencies.

 

Your HC1 is running armbian stretch or jessie ?

Would you go into production with this old package ?

 

Thanks

 

[JMCC]

Compiling Debian packages is a breeze, and since it only takes a couple minutes to create a fresh Armbian installation, you can just create one for compiling purposes. And, since Ubuntu Bionic already has an up-to-date package for mongo DB, I think the best option is to compile it for Stretch from the Bionic source package. Here is what I would do:

1. Flash an Armbian Stretch image on a spare SD card, and boot my XU4 from it.
2. Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

   deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic universe

    

3. Then, enter the following commands

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt install fakeroot
   sudo apt-get build-dep mongodb
   apt-get source mongodb
   cd mongodb*
   dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -j8

    

4. If I didn't make any typo, and Stretch has the right dependencies in its repos, the commands above should compile for you a set of Stretch-armhf mongodb packages. Just copy them to an USB drive, and then install them in your production Armbian Stretch system.

[chrisf]

On 10/5/2018 at 12:57 AM, ark74 said:

Your HC1 is running armbian stretch or jessie ?

Would you go into production with this old package ?

It's still on jessie. I've had no reason to change anything. Jessie is still a supported version.

 

In terms of "go into production", it's an SBC in my garage...

[Guest]

https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java

 

Now what? I crumped my odroid xu4 server, and went to reinstall my unifi controller software and this was what I was hit with. Somehow it installed openjava, but it isn't working the same.