Blocked during installation (VPN required)

I can’t install OpenHab on Rasberry using standard tools because the installation source is blocked (I’m in Russia). Manual installation goes badly and then doesn’t work.
How to solve the problem of standard installation?


You probably won’t be able to install using openHABian. But you might be and to get the raw apt package and install using dpkg. You can download a “manual” version of OH which is a zip file you unzip and OH can be run from there. Or Docker might be an option.

But you’ll have to manually do some of the stuff that openHABian dies for you.

I managed to install OH 4.3.3 via VPN. I write the image to the card. After it deploys, I install VPN on the Raspberry. I launch it.
Then I install this https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/#raspbian-bookworm
Then this - sudo apt install openresolv
Then from openhabian-config, mosquito and z2m are installed. Under VPN, z2m installed without errors. Manual installation does not lead to a working version. Because it causes a version conflict within the system. And it is not possible to select versions manually.