# Installation on CentOS 8 stopping

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846 "2019-10-23T13:58:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![userdarc](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/userdarc/32/10476_2.png) [@userdarc](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/userdarc)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/1 "2019-10-23T13:58:12Z")

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We have a problem installing Pi-hole on a CentOS 8. The installer script stops on this position:

[✓] Check for existing repository in /etc/.pihole  
[✓] Update repo in /etc/.pihole

[✓] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin  
[✓] Update repo in /var/www/html/admin

[i] Main Dependency checks...  
[✓] Checking for php-pdo

Unfortunately we can find no installer log to debug the process.

Does anyone have a clue how the get some information about whats going wrong here?

Thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![jfb](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/jfb/32/4332_2.png) [@jfb](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jfb)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/2 "2019-10-23T14:06:13Z")

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CentOS 8 is not a supported OS. There are some dependencies that are not available.

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**Author:** ![userdarc](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/userdarc/32/10476_2.png) [@userdarc](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/userdarc)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/3 "2019-10-23T14:14:33Z")

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Hi jfb,

we know that is is actually not supported, is there any workaround or something?

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**Author:** ![jfb](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/jfb/32/4332_2.png) [@jfb](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jfb)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/4 "2019-10-24T01:37:24Z")

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Here are some notes from a developer on this topic - this has not been tested, so your results may not be satisfactory.

> Looks like `lighttpd` & `lighttpd-fastcgi` are not available in the CentOS 8 EPEL repo.
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> I would suspect if a user was to install `lighttpd` and `lighttpd-fastcgi` manually. If not installed via yum/dnf, they would also want to remove them from the dependency list before re-running the installer.

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**Author:** ![bcambl](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/bcambl/32/10212_2.png) [@bcambl](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/bcambl)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/5 "2019-10-25T06:01:54Z")

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As noted above, the `lighttpd` packages that we require from the EPEL repositories do not appear to be available. CentOS 8 will remain unsupported until the packages are available and/or we remove the `lighttpd` from the project.

That said, I have provided a workaround below that will compile `lighttpd` from source and edit the install script to remove `lighttpd` from the dependencies. I hope this helps 😉

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UNSUPPORTED WORKAROUND

WARNING: The following paste contains the commands to set selinux to _permissive_. The project does not support selinux and will not function properly in _enforcing_. Please understand the consequences and if you require selinux _enforcing_, you will need to create a custom selinux policy to allow the project to function properly.

Instructions:  
As `root`, copy the entire text below and paste to terminal. Do not save as script, ensure you copy all lines including `# <- COPY START` all the way to the bottom including `# <- COPY END`.

```auto

# <- COPY START
if [! -f "/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd"]; then
dnf install -y autoconf make automake libtool pcre-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel git

git clone https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4.git
cd lighttpd1.4
./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
make
make install

cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/lighttpd.service
[Unit]
Description=Lightning Fast Webserver With Light System Requirements
After=syslog.target network-online.target

[Service]
PIDFile=/var/run/lighttpd.pid
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/lighttpd
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable lighttpd

mkdir -p /srv/www
mkdir -p /etc/lighttpd/conf.d
mkdir /etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d
cp doc/config/*.conf /etc/lighttpd/
cp doc/config/conf.d/*.conf /etc/lighttpd/conf.d

groupadd lighttpd
useradd -r -M -g lighttpd lighttpd

mkdir /var/log/lighttpd
chown lighttpd: /var/log/lighttpd
fi

setenforce 0
sed -i "s/^SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=permissive/" /etc/selinux/config

dnf install -y epel-release php-json git

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
cd "Pi-hole/automated install/"
sed -i "s/lighttpd\slighttpd-fastcgi//" basic-install.sh
chmod +x basic-install.sh
./basic-install.sh
# <- COPY END

```

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**Author:** ![userdarc](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/userdarc/32/10476_2.png) [@userdarc](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/userdarc)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/6 "2019-10-25T07:55:44Z")

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Hi bcambl,

thank you very much, that seems to be working!

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/7/c/7c8792f649eeb921c5d2b4c41564ffa873d9a2b8.png) [@system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 8:10am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/installation-on-centos-8-stopping/24846/7 "2019-11-15T08:10:37Z")

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