immich install failed syntax error

[BookerSoft]

✅ Have you read and understood the above guidelines?

yes

🔎 Did you run the script with verbose mode enabled?

Yes, verbose mode was enabled and the output is included below

📜 What is the name of the script you are using?

immich

📂 What was the exact command used to execute the script?

./immich.sh

📝 Provide a clear and concise description of the issue.

Run arm64 script on Asahi PXVirt 9.0, script ends trying to enable testing repo.

⚙️ What settings are you using?

• Default Settings
• Advanced Settings

🖥️ Which Linux distribution are you using?

No response

📈 Which Proxmox version are you on?

pve-manager/9.0.10-2/74d1bcc54a6e6730 (running kernel: 6.17.9+deb13.1-asahi)

🔄 Steps to reproduce the issue.

step 1 run the script with any settings
step 2 run app default install
step 3 ends while installing miss package and adding testing/g repo

❌ Paste the full error output (if available).

[2026-05-07 22:25:34] [ERROR] in line 131: exit code 2 (Misuse of shell builtins (e.g. syntax error)): while executing command sed -i 's/ trixie-updates/ trixie-updates testing/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources

✖️ Installation failed in container 102 (exit code: 2)
📋 Installation log: /tmp/immich-102-6199f724.log

Error: Misuse of shell builtins (e.g. syntax error)

🖼️ Additional context (optional).

No response

[Ignacet]

same to me:

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  ⚙️  Using Default Settings on node pve-rpi5
  💡  PVE Version 8.4.18 (Kernel: 6.12.87+rpt-rpi-v8)
  🆔  Container ID: 102
  🖥️  Operating System: debian (13)
  📦  Container Type: Unprivileged
  💾  Disk Size: 20 GB
  🧠  CPU Cores: 4
  🛠️  RAM Size: 6144 MiB
  🎮  GPU Passthrough: Enabled
  🚀  Creating a immich LXC using the above default settings
  
  ✔️   Storage local (Free: 210.6GB  Used: 11.9GB) [Template]
  ✔️   Storage local (Free: 210.6GB  Used: 11.9GB) [Container]
  ✔️   Storage 'local' (dir) validated
  ✔️   Template storage 'local' validated
  ✔️   Template debian-trixie-rootfs.tar.xz found locally.
  ✔️   Template debian-trixie-rootfs.tar.xz [custom-arm64]
  ✔️   LXC Container 102 was successfully created.
 ℹ️ No GPU devices found for passthrough
  ✔️   Started LXC Container
  ✔️   Network in LXC is reachable (ping)
  ✔️   Customized LXC Container
  ✔️   Set up Container OS
  ✔️   Network Connected: 172.28.0.40 172.28.0.41 
  ✔️   IPv4 Internet Connected
  ✖️   IPv6 Internet Not Connected
  ✔️   Git DNS: github.com:(✔️ ) raw.githubusercontent.com:(✔️ ) api.github.com:(✔️ ) git.community-scripts.org:(✔️ )
  ✔️   Updated Container OS
  ✔️   Dependencies Installed
  ✔️   Installed Mise
⠋ Configuring Debian Testing Reposed: can't read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources: No such file or directory
  ✖️   in line 133: exit code 2 (Misuse of shell builtins (e.g. syntax error)): while executing command sed -i 's/ trixie-updates/ trixie-updates testing/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources

  --- Last 20 lines of log ---
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Installing:
  mise

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 29.4 MB
  Space needed: 81.7 MB / 17.9 GB available

Get:1 https://mise.jdx.dev/deb stable/main arm64 mise arm64 2026.5.14 [29.4 MB]
Fetched 29.4 MB in 5s (5,776 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package mise.
(Reading database ... 41016 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mise_2026.5.14_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking mise (2026.5.14) ...
Setting up mise (2026.5.14) ...
[2026-05-22 14:35:53] [OK] Installed Mise
[2026-05-22 14:35:53] [INFO] Configuring Debian Testing Repo
[2026-05-22 14:35:53] [ERROR] in line 133: exit code 2 (Misuse of shell builtins (e.g. syntax error)): while executing command sed -i 's/ trixie-updates/ trixie-updates testing/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
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  ✖️   Installation failed in container 102 (exit code: 2)
 📋 Installation log: /tmp/immich-102-3bf5b6ff.log

  Error: Misuse of shell builtins (e.g. syntax error)

What would you like to do?

  1) Remove container and exit
  2) Keep container for debugging
  3) Retry with verbose mode (full rebuild)

Select option [1-3] (default: 1, auto-remove in 60s):

I tried to modify the repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, but dont work,
Tried to open the Template debian-trixie-rootfs.tar.xz, and create the file debian.sources, because dont exist originaly, without success.

[Ignacet]

I managed to make progress with the installation. The problem lies in how it handles the Debian sources; the script expects them to be in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources as I mentioned before, but the debian-trixie-rootfs.tar.xz template uses the sources.list file, and the debian.sources file doesn't exist there.

If you edit the debian-trixie-rootfs.tar.xz template image, comment out all the sources in the "sources.list" file, and generate the "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources" file with this content:

cat debian.sources 
# Debian 13 Trixie
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie trixie-updates 
Components: main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

# Security Updates
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

By doing this, it works and the script doesn't get stuck.

[mohaxs]

Thank for sharing. Did you mean extract the image first? What Immich version after your LXC created? Can you run update command in the shell?

[asylumexp]

Please see the notice in the README.