Frontail on debian: configuration like on openhabian?

Dear all!

I installed openhab on debian bookworm (an otherwise clean system, because I run it in a dedicated kvm virtual machine).

Reason is: I didn’t want the separate and slow raspi, and I already had a pc running linux.

begin rant:

Unfortunately, the debian openhab package does not include the very nice
openhabian-config
that makes installation in the openhabian image so very simple, so everything is quite hard on a full-blown linux pc.

/rant

To have the nice web-logging tool “frontail” that is installed in openhabian via the configurator, I installed frontail following the tutorial:

https://github.com/melvinisken/FrontailOH3

However, the configuration of frontail (index.html, CSS stylesheets, json files) are not as beautiful (read: useable) as the ones of the original openhabian configuration: eg:

The openhabian version lookes like:
grafik

where mine (from the tutorial) produces:
grafik

Due to the worse formatting (blue highlighting of items…) it is a tad bit harder to read.

However, I failed to copy the raspbian configuration over to the debian machine (due to a lack of understanding of the frontail config on my part). I copied over the frontail/web/ directory (ie index.html and css files) but this make things worse…

Anybody happens to know how to move the raspbian config of frontail over to debian?

Why not using the instructions how to use openHABian on a Debian install ?
You have to clone the git repository and than run the install script….
It is all in the docs…
Then you can install frontail via openHABian-config….

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Hi Hans-Jörg!

Thanks for your comment.

I followed:

and decided to use the 2nd version “installation via a package repository”, because the page says: “Installation through a package repository is the recommended choice.”

And the Link to the “openHabian project” leads to a different page and immediately talks about Raspian SD card images, which I didn’t want…
I did not identify the section “Other Linux Systems (add openHABian just like any other software)” at the botton of the linked page.

My fault, obviously.
As a suggestion, this could be made a bit clearer in the “openHAB on Linux” page…

As I am running debian in a kvm Virtual machine, I’ll just create a new one and start again from there…

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