Nano Pi Neo installation problem

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After many successfull Pi-Hole installations on Rasperry Zero W boards I discover problems installing Pi-Hole on my new Nano Pi Neo (connected with an ethernet cable). These are my steps so far:

  1. with Win32 Disk Imager the Friendly Core files were copied to a fast 16gb Sandisk SD-card

  2. insert the card and successfull booted the Nano Pi Neo

  3. ran “apt-get update” and “apt-get upgrade” without any issues

  4. reboot and installed Pi-Hole:

     git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
 cd "Pi-hole/automated install/"
 sudo bash basic-install.sh

  5. Pi-Hole installer runs as usual and I select next options:

    • Google DNS
    • select all blocklists
    • only IPv4 (disabled IPv6)
    • changed IP-address to 192.168.2.123/24
    • set gateway address to 192.168.2.254
    • confirmed all recommended further options

The installer proceeds as usual untill the message “[i] Checking for php-sqlite3 (will be installed)”, short
thereafter the installer stops and I’m back at “root@piHole/automated install#”. Re-running basic-install.sh shows the same results.

Does anyone knows how to solve this and can help me?

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What operating system did you install? If the installer fails there, one of the dependencies failed to install.

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Thanks for your reply. As far as I know for the Nano Pi Neo I need to use their "FriendlyCore (base on UbuntuCore) Image File, Kernel: Linux-4.14" which I did.

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You can also use Armbian, which may work better: https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neao/

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Thanks, I'll try and post my results here.

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So far no success with Armbian Bionic or Armbian Stretch from https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo burned with Etcher. Can't check if the NanoPi Neo 2 boots with these images because the board has no video out and it's IP-address is not shown within my LAN-scanner which normally works fine. So I cannot login with SSH.

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For makers having the same issue:

I've installed DietPi (https://dietpi.com) and it works well, it installs Pi-Hole from the DietPi configuration file without any problem. It turned out the NanoPi Neo 2 is very fast. Be aware to add "/admin" after your Pi-Hole IP-address in your browser otherwise a 403-Forbidden error is shown.

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