Debian 12 Appliance

Do This at Your Own Risk

A Debian 12 Appliance, similar to the Raspberry Pi Appliance, is still under development. In the meantime, you can get "close" to the same user experience by installing and configuring some additional packages. This is not generally recommended for most users at this time.

If you install the following packages, you’ll have everything you need to use the “appliance” configuration:

sudo apt install asl3 asl3-update-nodelist asl3-menu allmon3

You will still need to do certain things like configure Allmon3 by hand.

If you want to turn your configuration you described into the full appliance, you can try installing asl3-pi-appliance which will “take over” your system.

This hasn't been rigorously tested against a non-Pi installation, but it should mostly work (if not completely work) - but YMMV.

If you don’t want to take the risk of that, but still want all the web experience, you can install:

sudo apt install cockpit cockpit-networkmanager cockpit-packagekit \
  cockpit-sosreport cockpit-storaged cockpit-system cockpit-ws \
  python3-serial firewalld

Which should give you an unbranded, uncustomized Cockpit environment.

Again, doing the above is experimental and not generally recommended, but you are welcome to give it a try, and perhaps provide feedback on issues and changes to help push the development of a Debian 12 Appliance image along!