Hi, I was trying to switch from development-v6 to development, but ran into some issues (Unable to pull Web development branch) so decided to reinstall Pi-hole.
For some reason I can't uninstall Pi-hole though, I keep getting:
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo pihole uninstall
[?] Are you sure you would like to remove Pi-hole? [y/N] y
[✓] Root user check
/opt/pihole/uninstall.sh: line 42: : No such file or directory
How can I uninstall Pi-hole 'manually'? Thank you!
Why do you use sudo?
Did you try pihole uninstall yet?
Yes I tried, but it prompted me I had to use sudo for some reason.
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ pihole uninstall
[✗] The Pi-hole command requires root privileges, try:
sudo pihole uninstall
I think somewhere in the process of trying v6 I did something wrong, therefore I basically just want to start 'fresh' (I don't care about preserving any data).
Just follow the instruction: "sudo pihole uninstall" will work.
Sadly, it doesn't, as stated in my first post. That's the reason I'm posting here.
I'll repost the result of sudo pihole uninstall:
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo pihole uninstall
[?] Are you sure you would like to remove Pi-hole? [y/N] y
[✓] Root user check
/opt/pihole/uninstall.sh: line 42: : No such file or directory
I think the uninstaller is broken in v6.
Hmm that could be it indeed. Does anyone know of a way to do it 'manually'? I'd really like to reinstall the latest version of v6 to test some API quirks, but I can't seem make it work.
Maybe I overdid it when having similar issues a while back.
No idea if all of that was really necessary but everything works since!
Good luck!
I tried some things and I managed to be able to reinstall v5 by removing a bunch of stuff first:
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo rm -r -f /etc/pihole
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo rm -r -f /var/www
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo rm -r -f /etc/.pihole
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo rm -r -f /etc/dnsmasq.d/
And then reinstalling with:
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
The next step is upgrading to v6, but that gives a new error:
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ pihole checkout dev
Please note that changing branches severely alters your Pi-hole subsystems
Features that work on the master branch, may not on a development branch
This feature is NOT supported unless a Pi-hole developer explicitly asks!
Have you read and understood this? [y/N] y
[i] Shortcut "dev" detected - checking out development / devel branches...
[i] Pi-hole Core
[✓] Switching to branch: 'development' from 'refs/heads/master'
[i] Already up to date.
[i] Web interface
fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/devel
[✗] Unable to pull Web development branch
as well as
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ pihole -up
/opt/pihole/update.sh: line 108: : No such file or directory
Try if the following would get you back on the regular Pi-hole repos:
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/admin
sudo git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/web.git /var/www/html/admin
cd /
sudo rm -rf /etc/.pihole
sudo git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole /etc/.pihole
That seems to work fine!
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/admin
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/web.git /var/www/html/admin
Cloning into '/var/www/html/admin'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 37021, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (290/290), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (188/188), done.
remote: Total 37021 (delta 150), reused 222 (delta 102), pack-reused 36731 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (37021/37021), 37.44 MiB | 10.48 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (20195/20195), done.
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ cd /
pi@raspberrypi4:/ $ sudo rm -rf /etc/.pihole
pi@raspberrypi4:/ $ sudo git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole /etc/.pihole
Cloning into '/etc/.pihole'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 23861, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (941/941), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (522/522), done.
remote: Total 23861 (delta 554), reused 765 (delta 410), pack-reused 22920 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (23861/23861), 7.91 MiB | 9.69 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (15206/15206), done.
pi@raspberrypi4:/ $ pihole -v
Pi-hole version is development v5.18.3-490-g0cf0b2a (Latest: v5.18.3)
web version is v5.21 (Latest: v5.21)
FTL version is v5.25.2 (Latest: v5.25.2)
pi@raspberrypi4:/ $ pihole -up
[✓] Update local cache of available packages
[i] Existing PHP installation detected : PHP version 7.4.33
[✓] Checking for git
[✓] Checking for iproute2
[✓] Checking for dialog
[✓] Checking for ca-certificates
[i] Checking for updates...
[i] Pi-hole Core: up to date
[i] Web Interface: up to date
[i] FTL: up to date
[✓] Everything is up to date!
pi@raspberrypi4:/ $
Any guidance on how to switch to v6 beta/development?
I`m having the same problem trying to switch to V6 on the dev branch and the error is the same as jojost1 with the "fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/devel". anyway to get around this error?
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