Installing Home Assistant on Ubuntu
While the Home Assistant software doesn’t officially support Ubuntu, it is still possible to run the server since it is based on Debian. There may be a few things that don’t work exactly right but still should function. If you prefer to stick with a supported operating system, you should try moving to Debian 11.
You can get Home Assistant on Ubuntu in a couple of ways. The first is to use a virtual image and run it within a virtual container. The other is to install and run the “Supervised” version of Home Assistant.
For this guide, we will focus on installing the Supervised variant of the software directly to the Ubuntu operating system. We will have a separate guide that covers installing Home Assistant through a virtual machine.