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How to install unifi controller v5 on Ubuntu

Laptop Repair · 1 November 2026

In this blog you will learn how to successfully install unfi v 5.2.9 on Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu version 16.04 lts.

you need to add some link to the sources.list file which is located in etc/apt. This files includes the link to the unifi v5 url. Do do so open terminal and login with root. Enter this command

                   nano /etc/apt/sources.list

This will open a editable text file, and now copy and past this texts

deb http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/debian unifi5 ubiquiti

deb http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti

Now you need to exit and save the files, by clicking on Ctrl^X.

Now on the terminal again add the command

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50

Now update and than install Unifi controller

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install unifi

You can check the status of your unifi controller by running this command

systemctl status unifi

To go to the unifi controller url

On terminal type ifconfig, and right down the ip address of the computer

now open Firefox or any other browser and on the url type https://Youripaddres:8443

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