NON-OFFICIAL headless arm64 docker solution for Vero4k(+)

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Been using my vero4k as a docker for over 1 year now, and I’ve heard some thoughts about using/repurpose your aging 4k.

I’ve created a .deb package and hosted on github with source, for people to enjoy/alter/pr. This is what it does to your system:

  • Stop and Disables mediacenter from starting again at reboot.
  • Installs fzf, bat, tldr, zoxide, ripgrep, mc, screen and aml-vnc as deb packages
  • lazydocker as binary (version 0.24.1 tested and working)
  • eza as binarys v.0.20.20 tested and working)
  • docker_install.sh (needs to run as sudo, and sets up your vero4 as an arm64 dockerserver)
  • samba_install.sh (install osmc samba that autoshares your automounts, but also downloads a python version of wsdd service, to make sure your vero4 is seen on the windows network. ads osmc smbuser and ask you to provide a password)

.deb and all source can be found at:

Ps. For those that don’t know how to download and install in shell(ssh):

wget https://github.com/zjoasan/Headless_Vero4/raw/refs/heads/main/headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ./headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb
sudo docker_install.sh

Edit: Thanks @Tom_Doyle for the correction =)

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Does this keep the vero4k on bullseye? or does this use bookworm?

(I needed to upgrade my vero4k to bookworm in order to get the arm64 libraries for the docker environment in order to run some of my docker images that did not support armf)

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This has nothing to do with bookworm. I studied Dockers install script and instead of just using arch environment, I rewrote it to set arm64 as arch in the script*instead of detecting it(. As you know, left on it’s own it will install armvhf docker binaries, and hindering you from running arm64 containers.

This just force arm64 docker binaries to be installed, which in turn makes life a lot easier with modern containers.
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ps. You know that kernel on the Vero4k has had 64bit support as long as I remember, so executing arm64 code is no issue.

Edit: changed spelling mistakes and wording issues.

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Debian Bullseye will receive security updates for a long time yet.
You don’t need to upgrade to Bookworm for ARM64 containers.

Cheers

Sam

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I have an old Vero 4K+. I downloaded the package but when I dpkg it, I get the following error.

osmc@osmc4k:~$ sudo dpkg -i ./headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb
dpkg-deb: error: ‘./headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb’ is not a Debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive ./headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb (–install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
./headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb
osmc@osmc4k:~$

The downloaded “Deb” package with wget downloads a HTTP document.

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Hi,

Please try wget https://github.com/zjoasan/Headless_Vero4/raw/refs/heads/main/headless-docker_0.9.2_arm64.deb

Regards Tom.

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@joakim_s Thank you very much for writing this script. I was able to take my Vero 4K+ and turn it into a NGINX server completely securing my home network for all the other docker apps I wanted to expose to the internet. I appreciate your work.

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@wbeard52 mission accomplished!!!

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