The script to do this for you can be found HERE

If you want to run in a single line (not always a great idea if you don’t trust the source. Hopefully you trust me :-)

curl -s https://leffler.tech/scripts/unifi-buster.sh | bash

Manually below⌗

Link to original persons blog post⌗

The requirements of the Unifi Controller do not allow a direct installation. But with a few manual steps a successful setup is possible!

Basic requirements

apt install -y wget gnupg2 ca-certificates apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg software-properties-common multiarch-support

Enable installation of MongoDB 3.4

wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.4.asc |  apt-key add -
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian jessie/mongodb-org/3.4 main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list

Install old libssl required by MongoDB

wget http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1t-1+deb8u12_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libssl1.0.0_1.0.1t-1+deb8u12_amd64.deb

Install JDK 8

add-apt-repository --yes https://adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io/adoptopenjdk/deb/
wget -qO - https://adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io/adoptopenjdk/api/gpg/key/public |  apt-key add -
apt update && apt install -y adoptopenjdk-8-hotspot

Set JDK for Unifi

echo "JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/adoptopenjdk-8-hotspot-amd64" > /etc/default/unifi

Install Unifi Controller

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 06E85760C0A52C50
echo 'deb https://www.ui.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt-unifi.list
apt update && apt install -y unifi

THIS WAS COPY AND PASTED FROM ANOTHER BLOG. PLEASE GO CHECK THEIRS OUT, I JUST DIDN’T WANT TO LOOSE THIS FOR FUTURE USE

https://www.kobelnet.ch/2019/12/06/setup-unifi-controller-on-debian-10-buster