I am trying to rebuild my Pi Hole in a Photon OS VM since it the os is so wonderfully small.
I go to install it and it says I do not have bind-utils. When I go to install that in Photon it installs as bindutils. This is stopping the install clearly.
I am hoping there is an easy work around or a place where I can force the install of bind-utils instead of bindutils?
Photon OS is not a supported OS. It appears to have missing dependencies.
By minimizing the number of packages, focusing on security, and providing advanced lifecycle management, Photon OS delivers just enough of a Linux operating system to efficiently run containers on:
- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Compute Engine
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
I got that, but it seems to be a matter of naming only.
I figured someone here would know how to install the right repo.
I think with the stripped down nature of that OS, it will not have dependencies needed to run Pi-hole. Let's see what the OS reports about itself - what is the output of the following command from the Photon OS terminal:
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="VMware Photon OS"
VERSION="4.0"
ID=photon
VERSION_ID=4.0
PRETTY_NAME="VMware Photon OS/Linux"
ANSI_COLOR="1;34"
HOME_URL="https://vmware.github.io/photon/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="GitHub ยท Where software is built"
As to your comment about not having the dependencies, I was wondering if there was a compatible repo somewhere that someone knew of so I could install that version.
in photon, you can install "bindutils" which is the photon version. but pi-hole is looking for "bind-utils" and then the install stops.
I also realize that this could be the first in a long list of these issues, and I understand that if there are more then it could be a long time or a never until this os is supported.
Not supported.
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