As of today, February 1, 2025, the ISO provided by Proxmox is the release version (my wording) and not the "no subscription" version. This version is very tightly locked down, understandably. I have an older "no subscription" instance (development?) and have been able to install a few extra utilities like aptitude
, vim-nox
, htop
, and screen
.
I am setting up a new machine, new instance, to replace hardware that is 10–15 years old. To make the new instance is just like the old I disabled the repository source in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list
and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list
. Then added the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list
with one line:
deb [ arch=amd64 ] http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm pve-no-subscription
and ran the commands apt-get update
and apt-get upgrade --reinstall
.
The token "arch=amd64" works here because one system has two Intel X5690s and the new system has an Intel i7-10700K.