Hi, I just got a Rock 5C and a Penta Hat to build a NAS. Downloaded the official Debian CLI image from
https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-5c/releases/tag/rsdk-b1 and installed to an SD Card. However, when trying to install Open Media Vault from https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript, I got an error saying that “This system is running a desktop environment!”. Does this image contain a disabled desktop environment? Or there’s something wrong with the OMV install script? I searched the forum and saw other people were able to use OMV but none mentioned using the Rock 5C or this image specifically.
Rock 5C official CLI image contains desktop environment?
I dug a little and found that what seems to be triggering the error is the package “radxa-sddm-theme”. The script checks for installed environments with dpkg -l | grep -Eqw "gdm3|sddm|lxdm|xdm|lightdm|slim|wdm".
This package description on dpkg -l is “Radxa SDDM theme overrides”. Since I don’t run SDDM, I thought about removing this, but this creates a dependency issue with the packages: radxa-sddm-theme <- task-rockchip-xorg <- task-rockchip <- task-rk3588 (read “<-” as “is a dependency of”).
Running dpkg -l again shows the following descriptions for the packages:
task-rk3588 Metapackages for common RK3588 vendor packages
task-rockchip Metapackages for common Rockchip vendor packages
task-rockchip-xorg Metapackages for Rockchip X.Org.
The question now is: is it safe to remove these packages or can this break the system somehow?
Try clean OMV image from here:
https://github.com/armbian/distribution/releases/tag/24.8.4
- board has official platinum support at hardware level,
- OMV is build on top of clean IOT / minimal Debian Bookworm
I didn’t test this build but as its an automated process, it should be fine. Try and report!