installation of netbox community edition - distro support

[IliasTsarouchas]

I'd like to understand, when and if there will be support for new ubuntu lts or even for other distributions like debian. Is there any information about this available or known?

I am asking as an inplace upgrade from ubuntu lts 22.04 to 24.04 ended in an unusable system on my last two tries and I'd rather like to inplace upgrade then backup everything and restore it on a new instance.

It would be great to also be able to use other stable distro like debian for running netbox on it.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

[markkuleinio]

It would be great to also be able to use other stable distro like debian for running netbox on it.

What's preventing you from doing it? I've exclusively used Debian with NetBox for a few years, by just following the Ubuntu (which is based on Debian...) instructions.

If you have specific questions about installing NetBox on Debian, feel free to ask.

[IliasTsarouchas]

Thanks for your answer - thats great to hear. Well I didnt try it as I was afraid that the upgrade.sh script could fail on debian as the only officially supported distro mentioned in the docs is ubuntu lts 22.04.

[markkuleinio]

Yes, the project only lists some distribution(s) as supported because they don't have practical resources to validate all possible combinations.

But I've noticed that in the development they still consider all commands that are used in for example upgrade.sh so that they don't make NetBox purposefully incompatible with generic Linux installations.

[IliasTsarouchas]

Thats great to hear, so I'll have alternatives like installing it on debian instead of the next ubuntu lts. Thanks a lot for your valuable feedback and keep up the great work @netbox dev team.