Does Pi-Hole install on i386 [Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS]

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Expected Behaviour:

pihole install to have pihole service running and pihole executable installed

Actual Behaviour:

No pihole executable, no pihole service, and the only contents in /etc/pihole is:
adlists.list

Debug Token:

no pihole to be able to run pihole -d

First time trying to install pihole, though I'm no linux noob, I'm not able to get it to install.
Does it even install on i386 (32 bit) Ubuntu?

Linux Debian jessie/sid ( 3.13.0-153-generic i686)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

I've tried both one step automated installed as well as got clone methods, in both cases everything appears to be normal until the last step Installing packages
Please wait ...
Then shows red 100% progress bar and I'm dropped to shell with no messages whatsoever.

pihole
pihole573×169 1.79 KB

I can't even find the install log in /etc/pihole
/etc/.pihole does which appears to be the git repo.

I'm assuming that pihole needs docker and docker can't be installed on i386, but that should have been an easy check to do in the installation and avoid silent abort.

I appreciate if anyone could help out getting this installed (assuming that it's possible)

Thanks

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You can see here a "x86_32" version of pihole-FTL exists:

It might help if you post outcome for the install command here ?

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

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Thanks for the quick response.
OK I downloaded https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/download/v4.0/pihole-FTL-linux-x86_32
Appears to be a binary, when I start it, it outputs
FTL started!
however there is no process running, and the dashboard still sees no FTL

2018-08-15%2010_11_44-Pi-hole%20Admin%20Console
2018-08-15%2010_11_44-Pi-hole%20Admin%20Console231×147 4.62 KB

Below is the output of curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
(sorry I cannot upload attachments, hence I have to paste it here)

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

  [â] Root user check

        .;;,.
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         :cccclll:.      ..,,
          :ccccclll.   ;ooodc
           'ccll:;ll .oooodc
             .;cll.;;looo:.
                 .. ','.
                .',,,,,,'.
              .',,,,,,,,,,.
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          ....''',,,,,,,'.......
        .........  ....  .........
        ..........      ..........
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        .........  ....  .........
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                  ..'''.

  [i] Existing PHP installation detected : PHP version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.25
  [â] Disk space check

  [â] Update local cache of available packages

  [â] Checking apt-get for upgraded packages... up to date!

  [i] Installer Dependency checks...
  [â] Checking for apt-utils
  [â] Checking for dialog
  [â] Checking for debconf
  [â] Checking for dhcpcd5
  [â] Checking for git
  [â] Checking for iproute2
  [â] Checking for whiptail


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  [i] Logging On.
  [â] Check for existing repository in /etc/.pihole
  [â] Update repo in /etc/.pihole

  [â] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin
  [â] Clone https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE.git into /var/www/html/admin

  [i] Main Dependency checks...
  [â] Checking for bc
  [â] Checking for cron
  [â] Checking for curl
  [â] Checking for dnsutils
  [â] Checking for iputils-ping
  [â] Checking for lsof
  [i] Checking for netcat (will be installed)
  [â] Checking for psmisc
  [â] Checking for sudo
  [â] Checking for unzip
  [â] Checking for wget
  [i] Checking for idn2 (will be installed)
  [i] Checking for sqlite3 (will be installed)
  [â] Checking for libcap2-bin
  [i] Checking for dns-root-data (will be installed)
  [â] Checking for resolvconf

Package configuration

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Thanks in advance

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Your not suppose to download it and just run it :smiley:
It is a good test though to see if the binary can run at all.
Let the installer and systemd deal with that.

Whats output for:

sudo apt update

And:

sudo apt upgrade

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Thanks again,

Obviously the installer is not downloading or dealing with it.
Here's the output of apt

# sudo apt update
Ign http://repo.mongodb.org trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 InRelease
Hit http://repo.mongodb.org trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 Release.gpg
Hit http://repo.mongodb.org trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 Release
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Hit http://repo.zabbix.com trusty InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease [65.9 kB]
Hit http://repo.mongodb.org trusty/mongodb-org/3.0/multiverse i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.elasticsearch.org stable InRelease
Hit http://packages.elasticsearch.org stable Release.gpg
Hit http://repo.zabbix.com trusty/main Sources
Hit http://packages.elasticsearch.org stable Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Hit http://packages.elasticsearch.org stable/main i386 Packages
Hit http://repo.zabbix.com trusty/main i386 Packages
Get:2 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease [65.9 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports InRelease
Ign http://repo.mongodb.org trusty/mongodb-org/3.0/multiverse Translation-en_CA
Ign http://repo.mongodb.org trusty/mongodb-org/3.0/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Sources
Get:3 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main i386 Packages [1,036 kB]
Ign http://packages.elasticsearch.org stable/main Translation-en_CA
Ign http://packages.elasticsearch.org stable/main Translation-en
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit https://download.docker.com trusty InRelease
Hit https://download.docker.com trusty/stable amd64 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Ign http://repo.zabbix.com trusty/main Translation-en_CA
Get:4 https://download.docker.com trusty/stable Translation-en_CA
Get:5 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted i386 Packages [17.1 kB]
Ign http://repo.zabbix.com trusty/main Translation-en
Get:6 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages [456 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Get:7 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [15.0 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted Translation-en
Ign https://download.docker.com trusty/stable Translation-en_CA
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en
Ign https://download.docker.com trusty/stable Translation-en
Get:8 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main i386 Packages [703 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Get:9 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted i386 Packages [13.9 kB]
Get:10 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe i386 Packages [230 kB]
Get:11 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse i386 Packages [4,953 B]
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/main Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/universe Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_CA
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en_CA
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en_CA
Ign http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Translation-en_CA
Fetched 2,607 kB in 20s (130 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

# sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Thanks

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I believe some repo's were updated.
Can try install again and see if the packages get installed ?

If no luck, you can try install those packages manually and see what happens:

sudo apt install netcat idn2 sqlite3 dns-root-data

If they get installed successfully, you could try install Pi-hole again.

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Thanks again @deHakkelaar
netcat idn2 and sqlite3 installed fine
dns-root-data didn't

apt install dns-root-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package dns-root-data

Thanks

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cd ~

wget http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dns-root-data/dns-root-data_2018013001~17.10.1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i 'dns-root-data_2018013001~17.10.1_all.deb'

apt-cache policy dns-root-data

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You are awesome, thank you thank you thank you.

That did it, it's working now :slight_smile:
As I just started playing with this amazing service, I noticed couple of things (most likely due to my inexperience, but worth mentioning)

When I go to:
Long Term Data | Query Log
I get this popup.

2018-08-16%2011_48_10-Pi-hole%20Admin%20Console
2018-08-16%2011_48_10-Pi-hole%20Admin%20Console449×151 3.88 KB

Not sure if this has anything to do with the fact that I still don't have long term data, but the message does not sound right.

Also I switched my Upstream DNS Server to Quad 9 so that I can use DNSSec, enabled DNSSec, but the DNSSec test still fails

2018-08-16%2012_17_22-DNSSEC%20Resolver%20Test
2018-08-16%2012_17_22-DNSSEC%20Resolver%20Test467×257 16.6 KB

Thanks again.

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echo ">stats" | nc -v localhost 4711

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Yeah could be.
Give it a little time.

Cant help you with the DNSSec but am sure someone else can.

EDIT: ohw by running the pihole-FTL binary manually previously, you might have created a database file belonging to the wrong user.
Check ownership:

pi@noads:~ $ stat /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (  999/  pihole)   Gid: (  996/  pihole)

If not owned by user/group pihole/pihole, delete the file with:

sudo rm /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db

And restart pihole-FTL with:

sudo systemctl restart pihole-FTL

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Thanks for all the assistance you provided, it's priceless.

echo ">stats" | nc -v localhost 4711
Connection to localhost 4711 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
domains_being_blocked 134767
dns_queries_today 498
ads_blocked_today 122
ads_percentage_today 24.497992
unique_domains 198
queries_forwarded 276
queries_cached 100
clients_ever_seen 6
unique_clients 6
dns_queries_all_types 16872
reply_NODATA 55
reply_NXDOMAIN 4
reply_CNAME 148
reply_IP 368
status enabled
---EOM---

As I was trying to figure out about the popup error message, I realized that
Tools | Tail pihole.log works fine
However
Tools | Tail pihole-FTL.log shows empty
The file /var/log pihole-FTL.log does exists on my system
Could be a bug.

Thanks

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Same on mine.
Its a "live" tail so probably not allot has happened lately :wink:

If want to see the whole log:

less /var/log/pihole-FTL.log

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That makes sense, thanks, I would have expected it to display the last few lines at least.
In any case all good :slight_smile:

Can't thank you enough.

Have a good day.

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