incus-clearlinux

Install script for incus on clearlinux (using Nix package manager)

What does it do?

You can look at the script to see exactly what commands are used, but in general summary:

1. Installs dhcp-server kvm-host storage-utils which are all necessary for incus.
2. Installs nix package manager, and installs incus-lts along with some packages it needs (lxcfs, rsync, attr) with nix package manager.
3. Installs the incus UI from my repository here: https://github.com/cmspam/incus-ui
4. Sets up and enables systemd services to run incus and lxcfs

How to use it

To minimize any potential issues, only use this script on a fresh clear linux installation.

I make it available publicly, but please note that this script does not have any kind of safety checking and is thrown together for my own convenience, so upstream changes, a lack of internet connectivity, or other various issues could potentially cause it to not work, or in the worst case, to harm your system.

I suggest you look at the script and run the commands line by line for the safest method of installation.

However, if you want to take the risk, you can get a root shell and run:

sudo su
bash <(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmspam/incus-clearlinux/main/incus-clearlinux-install.sh)

Post-install maintenance.

Clearlinux and its packages will be updated automatically by default, but you can run

swupd update

in order to manually update.

The nix packages can be updated using

nix-channel --update
nix-env -u '*'
nix-collect-garbage -d

The UI can be updated by running:

curl -OL https://github.com/cmspam/incus-ui/releases/download/latest/incus-ui.tar.gz
tar xvf incus-ui.tar.gz
rm incus-ui.tar.gz