Prepping Linux for a NAS station

[HeLiOn]

This is pretty much a follow-up for this topic, but I'll put some context here as well.
I decided to use Linux server as an operating system for a NAS station. I was even given clear instructions on how to install everything.

The Linux installation wend down without any issue. However, I got into an issue when trying to install cockpit.
This is the advice I was given:  

On 9/18/2020 at 11:22 PM, Jarsky said:

 

Yeah if you use Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Server install has no desktop environment by default. Then just make sure the SSH Server feature is added during the installation process (i think it is by default). Then you can just use PuTTy or similar to connect to a terminal session remotely for anything you may need outside of the WebUI

 

If you go this route and you want docker, i'd personally install Docker after Ubuntu is installed, to get the official docker.io rather than docker-ce (open source community edition). 

 

So after Ubuntu is installed, to get it up and running just run

sudo apt remove docker docker-engine docker-ce
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo apt install cockpit cockpit-docker -y
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker

You may need to allow the port through the firewall, which in Ubuntu would be

sudo ufw allow 9090/tcp

 

Everything should be installed then, and persistant through a reboot, then you can access the Cockpit UI at http://myservername:9090 

 

The problem was that the cockpit-docker package couldn't be located.
After doing a bit of research, I found out that cockpit-docker was discontinued in favor of something called cockpit-podman.
I reckon the podman version can work just as well for having a web UI for my server, but does that man I have to remove the docker.io package and install something else?

This is the very first time I'm operating with Ubuntu server. I know nothing about it...

[archiso]

7 minutes ago, HeLiOn said:

This is pretty much a follow-up for this topic, but I'll put some context here as well.
I decided to use Linux server as an operating system for a NAS station. I was even given clear instructions on how to install everything.

The Linux installation wend down without any issue. However, I got into an issue when trying to install cockpit.
This is the advice I was given:  

The cockpit-docker package couldn't be located.
After doing a bit of research, I found out that cockpit-docker was discontinued in favor of something called cockpit-podman.
I reckon the podman version can work just as well for having a web UI for my server, but does that man I have to remove the docker.io package and install something else?

This is the very first time I'm operating with Ubuntu server. I know nothing about it...

I don't know much about ubuntu server, but I'm fairly sure that you don't need to uninstall the docker.io. The only reason to uninstall it would be to save space.

[HeLiOn]

Just now, Lemon797 said:

The only reason to uninstall it would be to save space.

Space isn't an issue, since the hard drive has 500 GBs, and this is intented to just run a media server.
That leaves me with the second part of the question, though. I don't know if the cockpit-podman needs anything else to work.

[archiso]

1 minute ago, HeLiOn said:

Space isn't an issue, since the hard drive has 500 GBs, and this is intented to just run a media server.
That leaves me with the second part of the question, though. I don't know if the cockpit-podman needs anything else to work.

I'm sorry but I don't know the ethier. but I found this guide: https://cockpit-project.org/running#ubuntu

[Master Disaster]

11 minutes ago, HeLiOn said:

Space isn't an issue, since the hard drive has 500 GBs, and this is intented to just run a media server.
That leaves me with the second part of the question, though. I don't know if the cockpit-podman needs anything else to work.

If it has prerequisites then APT will also pull those at install time.

[HeLiOn]

25 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

If it has prerequisites then APT will also pull those at install time.

Thanks. I managed to install it. Turns out the podman package was for something else.
I am receiving an error when trying to login through the interface, but I think I'll just join the discord from now on to avoid opening topic after topic.
Thank you for your time.