Richard Bernecker

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Self-Hosting UniFi Network Server on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubiquiti provides official instructions here, but Ubuntu 22.04 requires a little finesse. You’ll want to follow right up until you install the UniFi application itself. At this point, we need to add in the old security repository for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver. The command is below:


echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main universe" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bionic.list

With the repository added to the list of sources, we need to add in the associated GPG key to allow APT to grab packages. The keys are listed here in keyserver.ubuntu.com, but the current key as of writing is:

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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

To add this key to APT, you’ll need to save it into a file, i.e. bionic.pgp. Once saved, we can now install unifi and libssl1.0 will be installed automatically.

sudo apt-key add bionic.gpg #Imports the GPG key so APT will read the repository we added.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unifi

That’s it! UniFi Network Server should install without issues.