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Basic Kiosk Installer
A really basic Bash script that helps you display one or multiple websites Kiosk style on Debian based distros.
Requirements
What you need


Option 1 : Debian 12

Base Installation with following :
Locale set to your locale
Hostename set to something appropriate
Password for root set
"kiosk" user made
Software selection : SSH Server and Standard System Utilities (nothing more than that)


Option 2 : Raspberry Pi OS Lite

Base Image with following :
Network Configured
Locale set to your locale
Hostename set to something appropriate
"kiosk" user made
SSH Enabled


Debian 12
Basic user setup and preparations

sign in to your Debian machine using SSH and kiosk user ssh kiosk@your.debian.host
sign into your root account using su
install the basics : apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt install sudo dialog git htop tmux screen screenfetch -y
add sbin to bash paths for root echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin' | tee -a ~/.bashrc ~/.profile > /dev/null && bash
Add kiosk user to sudo group

bash
usermod -aG sudo kiosk
exit
exit
exit


Sign back in via ssh ssh kiosk@your.debian.host
add sbin to bash paths for kiosk user echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin' | tee -a ~/.bashrc ~/.profile > /dev/null && bash
download the kiosk and go to its folder git clone https://git.teleco.ch/crt/basic-kiosk.git/ && cd basic-kiosk

Installing the Kiosk via Terminal User Interface (TUI/GUI)

run the installer