Several of our customers have a server on premises from us. These are all running Debian with no X server installed. It has never been needed and because of the memory and processor consumption, we’d prefer to keep it that way.
Is there a way to install Ignition 8 without having to use the graphical installer? Once installed, I would be happy to use the browser based configuration. I just don’t want to install an entire desktop system just to run an installer once.
Thanks,
Joe Jansen
Note that these are not currently Ignition servers. We have other software that we sell / support on them currently. We want to expand our offering using the existing hardware.
Can you use the zip distributions instead?
I launched the Ignition 8 installer on a shell without problems. It falls back to text mode when there is no desktop.
Hello, i’m trying to install on Debian 13.1 and search for this , so i found this thread.
Due to how the website is handling visitors, (xml keys and device id) , i can’t see any way to download the package directly on the machine without desktop. wget and curl are not working.
What would be the suggested method for this ?
The download server verifies the referrer header. Add that to wget.
I tend to just SFTP files from my linux desktop to any headless server--my 10G infra in the office is faster than a fresh download.
As @pturmel said, you should use referer for wget or curl.
E.g.
wget --referer=https://inductiveautomation.com/ https://files.inductiveautomation.com/release/ia/8.3.2/20251202-1115/Ignition-linux-x86-64-8.3.2.zip