fake-proxmox-subscription

A Debian package to disables the "No valid subscription" dialog on all Proxmox products (in theory), regardless of their version.

Based on Jamesits/fake-pve-subscription

This package was created to provide that the package is built via CI/CD and be transparent about it - because you'd be installing it on your server afterall, and who'd install a random .deb package on it?

Features

This package should work and patch:

• Proxmox VE (5.x or later - 3.x and 4.x requires some manual actions)
• Proxmox Mail Gateway (5.x or later)
• Proxmox Backup Server (1.x or later)

What this package does is:

1. Non-Intrusive: Performs 0 modification to the system files.
2. Future-Proof: Requires no adjustments between system updates & major upgrades.
3. Hassle-Free: Install or uninstall with ease, just 1 command and done.
4. Debian-ized: Comes as a proper Debian package, fresh from GitHub CI/CD to provide transparency to its delivery.
5. Fuck JavaScript: No JavaScript is involved in the whole process, because fuck JavaScript.

Usage

Installation

Download the latest .deb file found under releases and install it with apt or apt-get:

# curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/arszilla/fake-proxmox-subscription/releases/latest | grep "browser_download_url.*deb" | cut -d : -f 2,3 | tr -d \" | wget -i - -O fake-proxmox-subscription.deb
# apt install ./fake-proxmox-subscription.deb

Uninstallation

Just run apt or apt-get with the remove flag:

# apt remove fake-proxmox-subscription

Build It Yourself

You can easily build the package yourself, assuming you have a Debian-based system:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential debhelper dpkg-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/Arszilla/fake-proxmox-subscription
$ cd fake-proxmox-subscription/
$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
$ ls -al ../fake-proxmox-subscription_*

You can view and validate the contents of your newly build .deb while at it:

$ dpkg-deb --info ../fake-proxmox-subscription_*.deb
$ dpkg-deb --contents ./fake-proxmox-subscription_*.deb

Alternatively, a Dockerfile is available if you want to use podman or docker to build the packages. Just transfer the generated file from /opt/.

I couldn't be really arsed with it or bother - I mainly used the Dockerfile to validate my packaging, but reckoned someone might want to use it.