Posted by It seems the Unifi Controller, at time of writing, is horribly outdated. It relies on Mongo DB < 5.0.4.4, which isn’t quite end of life at time of writing but it goes EOL in Feb 2024.
To install Unifi Controller on Debian 12 you need to:
# Add pre-requisites
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ca-certificates apt-transport-https
# Add Unifi repo and key
sudo echo 'deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://www.ui.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt-unifi.list
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/unifi-repo.gpg https://dl.ui.com/unifi/unifi-repo.gpg
# Add Mongo 4.4 repo and key
sudo echo 'deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian buster/mongodb-org/4.4 main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list
curl -fsSL https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-4.4.asc | sudo gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mongodb-server-4.4.gpg --dearmor
# Download and install libssl1.1
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.1w-0+deb11u1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.1w-0+deb11u1_amd64.deb
# Finally install unifi
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unifi -y
Thank you, Phil! This worked perfectly.
Thanks! I got a couple of Permission denied errors so I had to use the following commands instead:
echo ‘deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://www.ui.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt-unifi.list
echo ‘deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian buster/mongodb-org/4.4 main’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list
Thank you so much, Phil. I spent the whole day on this task until I found your post.
I’ve spent days on this and still can’t get it working.
Everything installs as expected but when I put the IP into a browser, I just get ‘Refused To Connect’