openHABian hassle-free openHAB Setup

Everyone,
please pay close attention to

Do not upgrade 2016-11-11

I want to emphasize, that apt upgrade is currently in fact breaking your openHAB system.
This is a short time error which will probably be solved soon.
Please stay clear from upgrading for a couple of days.

A fresh openHABian installation will also be unable to start openHAB.
In all cases this is only a temporary problem and you will be able to apt upgrade to the soon to be released working release.

Update - Fix available 2016-11-13

A solution is available.

  • New installations are no problem anymore.
  • Users who did an upgrade in between and are desperately waiting for an upgrade: Do it now! sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
  • Users still on a previous build, you may also update now.

Everyone: There might still be smaller problems. If you are on a stable setup right now, it wouldn’t hurt to wait for a few more days for things to settle…

If you have all or most settings for your system in the configuration folder under /etc/openhab2/ it’s also a good idea to do a clean reinstallation:

# Make backup
cp -arp /etc/openhab2 /home/pi/openhab2-conf-bak

# Remove and reinstall openHAB
sudo apt update
sudo apt purge openhab2-offline
sudo apt install openhab2-offline

# Restore Backup
#sudo rm -rf /etc/openhab2
sudo cp -arp /home/pi/openhab2-conf-bak /etc/openhab2
sudo systemctl restart openhab2.service

Additional openHABian step: You will see this error:

I’ve already implemented the needed changes in openHABian. Please execute sudo openhabian-config, then first select “Update” to retrieve these changes, then select “Basic Setup” to apply them to your system.

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