Install pi-hole 5

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Can you still install pi-hole version 5?

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Yes, depending on your distro, you can access their package archives and install v5 from there.

If you are running docker, you'll just change the version tag on pihole/pihole:latest to pihole/pihole:2024.07.0

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I'm running it in a Proxmox VM.

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What is the output of uname -v

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#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.128-1 (2025-02-07)

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It seems that debian does not package pihole.

Your best bet would be to download the source code & run the basic-install.sh

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[i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
[✗] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-linux-x86_64 not found
[✗] FTL Engine not installed
root@blackhole2:~/pi-hole-5.18.4#
Looks like they dont want us to roll back to 5.

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In theory it still may be possible, you'd just have to edit the script to point to the correct releases for webInterfaceGitUrl, pihole-FTL (line 2231 in script), and piholeGitUrl

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Use a docker install and pull the V5 container.

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No. That's not the case.

The issue is a combination of things:

  • Pi-hole installer always initially installs the current version (this is v6). After that you can change to a different tag, but the installed version needs to be compatible;
  • v6 installer is different than v5 installer;
  • v6 uses different naming for FTL files. As a result, the v6 installer can't find the correct v5 FTL (just like you noticed above);
  • many users complete the migration to v6. A few users were not able to completely install v6 and each of these cases failed in a different step, so there are too many different cases to find a single solution;
  • making a new installer to allow installing old versions is out of the question (it will demand time we don't have for testing).;
  • we are using all our free time to answer questions here and fix/improve v6, so there is no available time to go 10, 20 or more steps to teach each individual user how to go back to a previous version.

Using docker image 2024.07.0 is a very simple way to use Pi-hole v5.

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