Having a problem installing home assistant

hiyo! :slight_smile: I was installing home assistant to a friends minipc and I’m getting stuck on something I’ve not run into before. sorry I cant figure out the format of this forum with these icons I’ll just paste the error I’m getting…which i got the error just after getting to the last part of the install for home assistant. step 4. for this GitHub - home-assistant/supervised-installer: Installer for a generic Linux system. also this is with DietPi_NativePC-UEFI-x86_64-Bullseye fully updated and off a clean install.

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
systemd-resolved : Depends: systemd (= 252.5-2~bpo11+1) but 247.3-7+deb11u4 is to be installed
Breaks: systemd (< 251.3-2~) but 247.3-7+deb11u4 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

You have a conflict with the Debian version used. The software you try to install requires systemd version 252.5-2~bpo11+1 but version 247.3-7+deb11u4 is going to be installed. This is as expected because 247.3-7+deb11u4 is the regular Debian Bullseye version, while 252.5-2~bpo11+1 is the version from Debian Bullseye Backports repository. Debian -- Package Search Results -- systemd

I guess you need to add Debian Bullseye Backports repository to your source file configuration.

how do I do that? I’m not really a linux person. also i was getting this error on bullseye and bookworm. normally I only have to flash the image and install software it usually just works… like this? Instructions

On the software GitHub you try to install, a report is open about Bookworm support. Bug Report: Debian 12 (bookworm) support · Issue #299 · home-assistant/supervised-installer · GitHub Not sure if they already support Bookworm

Regarding backports, yes you can add it that way.

okay thank you ill try that later. um I’m also having a problem installing dietpi to a vm. it wont import it. it says it cant interpret appliance.

We have different install guides depending on virtualization software used How to install DietPi - DietPi.com Docs

yep i get to the bottom of step 2 for virtualbox is when it says it cant import the file. ah i see it says Cannot parse ISO timestamp. i dont know what that means. :frowning:

looks like the Bookworm image got corrupted. Probable we need to rebuild it.

Can you try the image I created for testing https://dietpi.com/downloads/images/testing/DietPi_VirtualBox-x86_64-Bookworm.7z

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your testing image works.

Ok thx for testing, we will move new image into official download place

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cool. thank you for the help. :slight_smile:

I have one more thing i was wondering about. do you know much about using dietpi in a vm for virtualbox? how do i get it to use 2.5gbps instead of 1gbps?

personally I don’t have a device using 2.5gbps, so not sure how to get this working on VBox.