V5 Headless setup - Debian

[kjanas]

Hello, I'm looking for a guide/tips, how to install system-bridge v5 on my servers, mostly headless (proxmox, debian VMs and few remote VPS). If my memory serve, it was tricky, but possible in v4, however on v5 I'm struggling to make it work.

Very 1st issue I've stuck - once I installed .deb package, I cannot start backend with command:
system-bridge backend

Error message:
system-bridge: error while loading shared libraries: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Obviously, there is no X server on headless machine

2nd, service script mentioned in repo home:
sudo cp .scripts/linux/system-bridge.service /etc/systemd/system/
does not exists in repo.

Happy to test any solutions

[njunghausz]

1. you need to install these two packages: libx11-dev libxtst-dev
2. the file can be downloaded from the git repo but I couldn't get it working (it's complaining about "could not get config path: HOME environment variable not set").

[njunghausz]

I also wasn't able to connect to it.
When I run 'system-bridge backend' then it wouldn't bind itself incorrectly to the network interface, hence no connection was possible:

2025-10-13 16:41:06 INF Backend server is running on address=0.0.0.0:9170

netstat -nlp | grep 9170
tcp6 0 0 :::9170 :::* LISTEN 45907/system-bridge