Debian 13: Incus web UI / best install option

[gibmat (Mathias Gibbens)]

@Esbeeb

I’m kind of confused here. So when I look at the readme here:

GitHub - zabbly/incus-ui-canonical: Fork of canonical/lxd-ui for use with Incus (gets rebased frequently) · GitHub

…it would have me install straight up lxd

Updating a README is pretty low priority. With the Zabbly repo enabled, you can run apt install incus-ui-canonical to get the web UI.

@Esbeeb

@gibmat

There’s an upstream bug to track any progress on getting the Incus UI packaged for Debian.

Here’s the jist I gathered: owing to Caninocal’s highly distasteful design choice of Node.js (and to a lesser degree, Typescript), it’s extremely hard to ever make a proper Debian package of incus-ui-canonical (called more generically, “incus-ui”). At best, we might hope for some hero-like person to provide an unofficial Debian source for it.

Debian is a “do-ocracy” – if no one is sufficiently motivated to package requested software then it doesn’t get done. I personally don’t use the web UI, so while I have a direct interest in maintaining the Incus packages in Debian, I don’t have the interest/best background for packaging a web application.

You might also consider Introducing Hye Ararat: A Web UI native to Incus , which looks like it’s under pretty active development.