Installing the Unifi controller on Ubuntu can be quite a mission if Mongodb isn't installed. Install Mongodb with: sudo apt install mongodb There are number of issues around Plymouth which result in the Unifi controller not being able to start. A simple solution is
There are a couple of things you need to do in order to get the Unifi controller working on Ubuntu 17.04: 1. Change the init file to contain the correct path to Java You can follow the instructions in this post 2. Change
Installing Ubiquiti's Unifi controller on Ubuntu is fairly straight forward. The first step is to install the Unifi controller with the following commands: deb http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50 sudo apt-get