# Error: Web Admin repo is missing from system: Unable to upgrade to release 5.16.1
**URL:** https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** update
**Created:** [March 24, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034 "2023-03-24T13:26:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Evgeny](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Evgeny)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/1 "2023-03-24T13:27:00Z")
```auto
$ 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: update available
Error: Web Admin repo is missing from system!
Please re-run install script from https://pi-hole.net
```
Previously, there were no such problems when updating.
```auto
$ pihole -v
Pi-hole version is v5.15.5 (Latest: v5.16.1)
AdminLTE version is N/A N/A (Latest: v5.19)
FTL version is v5.21 (Latest: v5.22)
```
```auto
uname -a
Linux pi 5.15.76-v7+ #1597 SMP Fri Nov 4 12:13:17 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux
```
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye
What to do about it?
---
### Author:  [@yubiuser](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/yubiuser)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/2 "2023-03-24T14:10:37Z")
```auto
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/admin
sudo git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE.git /var/www/html/admin
```
---
### Author:  [@Evgeny](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Evgeny)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/3 "2023-03-24T15:03:37Z")
> [@yubiuser](#):
>
> `/var/www/html/admin`
Thanks! It helped. The update has now completed successfully.
Do I need to change the owner of the files in this directory?
```auto
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/admin
```
---
### Author:  [@yubiuser](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/yubiuser)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/4 "2023-03-24T22:46:50Z")
I think this should not be necessary. Did you try if the web interface is working without the change?
---
### Author:  [@Evgeny](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Evgeny)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/5 "2023-03-25T09:26:36Z")
Yes, everything works. Thanks again.
---
### Author:  [@jfb](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jfb)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/6 "2023-03-25T13:14:21Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Web admin damaged, cannot update](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/web-admin-damaged-cannot-update/62059)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/error-web-admin-repo-is-missing-from-system-unable-to-upgrade-to-release-5-16-1/62034/7 "2023-04-15T13:14:42Z")
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