Hello, I'm not a novice user and I've dealt with all the problems listed, no need for assistance, but I wanted to show what installing Freedombox is like for a new user now. It's a QA report, not a rant.
I've downloaded Freedombox 0.9 image for Virtualbox. It imported nicely and I was able to see the web interface. Problem 1: Chromium isn't happy to show http://freedombox/ and there's no MOTD on screen suggesting which IP address to use. Okay, so let's see what's available. I wanted to install Pagekite - Problem 2: getting an error about dpkg being locked. After logging in I figured out that unattended-upgrades is running. When it was done, I tried installing the Pagekite again. Problem 3: after upgrade is finished, web interface is dead. Okay, I'll try to reboot the VM then. Problem 4: after reboot, nothing is listening on ports 80 and 443 Looks like Apache failed to start, `systemctl start apache2` worked but the web interface is very incomplete (missing the left column). Something is very wrong. Turns out, package configuration wasn't finished and `dpkg -a --configure` was needed, followed by `apt-get -f install`. The failed packages were: freedombox-setup and plinth. After that, I was able to see the web interface and install Pagekite. Problem 5: /plinth/sys/pagekite/configure/ displays error 500 - reported: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/issues/1119 I guess all of these problems, except for #5, could be solved by releasing a new set of images - the current ones are from July 2016: http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/freedombox/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss