Proxmox Proxmox-Exposed-Host Proxmox Fixes and Workarounds The special case with a VPS Monitoring Proxmox Workstation Install Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 I am assuming, that you want to use a Debian based Operating System (not Ubuntu based) and you want Proxmox, Docker and GPT4All installed on your Laptop. Here I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 let's get started: Go trough installation process Install Proxmox VE Upgrade the system and install some basic tools sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y sudo apt install vim git curl wget htop ssh netcat-traditional openvpn Cerate a Interface used for LXC Containers: edit /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto enp2s0 iface enp2s0 inet static address 10.10.20.254/24 post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '10.10.20.0/24' -o enp0s3 -j MASQUERADE post-down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s '10.10.20.0/24' -o enp0s3 -j MASQUERADE source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* Edit hosts file, needed to install proxmox successfully vim /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.10.20.254 devstation.proxmox.local devstation hostname --ip-address 127.0.0.1 10.10.20.254 # should return your IP address here Add Proxmox Repos and gpg key echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg Upgrade Packagebase, Install Proxmox Kernel and reboot apt update && apt full-upgrade apt install pve-kernel-6.2 systemctl reboot Install Proxmox, remove Debian Kernel, update Grub bootloader and remove os-prober apt install proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi chrony apt remove linux-image-amd64 'linux-image-6.1*' update-grub apt remove os-prober We log into the webinterface with root user, so it needs to have a password sudo -i passwd Now navigate to your browser with this URL https://127.0.0.1:8006 Accept the security exception and enter your root password Now you should see this dashboard install Docker and Portainer sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose sudo docker volume create portainer_data sudo docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest Now you can navigate to the Docker Webinterface https://127.0.0.1:9443 you should see something like this Install GPT4All comes in very hand for basic questions wget https://gpt4all.io/installers/gpt4all-installer-linux.run sudo chmod +x gpt4all-installer-linux.run mkdir ~/Desktop ./gpt4all-installer-linux.run mv ~/Desktop/GPT4All.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ Now download a Language Model via GUI: GPT4All is now ready to answer your questions