Dear Luis,
thank you very much for your kind words!
Unfortunately I did not manage to install GNU Health 5.0 until now.
Here is what I tried:
1. loaded down from https://www.gnuhealth.org/downloads/images/ the file
GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz into my home folder under Ubuntu 25.04
2. loaded down and read the file
https://www.gnuhealth.org/downloads/images/README.txt
2.1.because of "The image is compressed in gzip format. Make sure you
uncompress it before importing into virtualbox."
I tried:
edgar@ai-workstation:~$ gunzip GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz
gzip: GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz: not in gzip format
edgar@ai-workstation:~$
and
edgar@ai-workstation:~$ gzip -d GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz
gzip: GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz: not in gzip format
edgar@ai-workstation:~$
2.2. I looked into https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/userguide/ and
https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/installation/virtualmachine.html
but did not find a solution to this problem except renaming the file to
.xz
edgar@ai-workstation:~$ gzip -d GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.xz
gzip: GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.xz: unknown suffix -- ignored
edgar@ai-workstation:~$
2.3. renamed the image back to .gz and tried again to uncompress it
edgar@ai-workstation:~$ gzip -d GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz
gzip: GNUHealth-50-debian12.vdi.gz: not in gzip format
edgar@ai-workstation:~$
3. I quit
All the best
Edgar
Am 2025-08-05 18:06, schrieb Luis Falcon:
Dear Edgar
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 16:39:39 +0200
Edgar Hagenbichler <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Luis,
Great news! I will gladly try to install GH 5.0 on my workstation
running Ubuntu 25.04 and report back on my experience.
You asked for it, you have it :)
GNU Health HIS server 5.0 - VirtualBox image available 😎
https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth/114976918226795696
Let us know if you could install and run the VM.
PS: Thank you for your kind wishes for the Rome conference. It's such a
great event and we're excited and looking forward to it.
All the best
Luis
All the best,
Edgar
PS: Congratulations for being invited as keynote speaker at the One
Health Conference in Rome!
Am 01.08.2025 um 22:49 schrieb Luis Falcon:
> Dear Edgar
>
> Hope this mail finds you doing great!
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:31:17 +0200
> Edgar Hagenbichler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Therefore, I cannot provide any substantial feedback, except that I
>> am still waiting for a way to install GNU Health as a normal user
>> (and not as a “power user” or even a “developer”).
>>
> Next week I'll be uploading the GNU Health 5.0 HIS images for:
>
> - VirtualBox (Debian 12)
> - RaspberryPi 4
>
> The images will provide server and client, and the instance will be
> started by default, so it's basically "Plug and Play GNU Health" :)
>
> We also include the local demodb.
>
> As usual, we place the news in our mastodon account:
>
> https://mastodon.social/@gnuhealth
>
> All the best and happy hacking!
> Luis
>
