Pi-hole auto update

[Dave_Pickering]

Hi All newbie here

I've reinstalled Pi-hole not for the first time, so I am on version v5.8.1

My Q is

I am running it on RPI Raspian, is there a way to auto update pi-hole by some sort of script.

I'm a beginner so not to familiar with command line stuff, so any solution to this Q needs to be easy & simple to do,

TIA

[bkbartje]

I would advise against this,

but you could use a cronjob to run "pihole -up"
in ssh
run

sudo crontab -e

select your editor (I would suggest Nano)
add a line like

0 2 * * * "sudo pihole -up"

and pihole will update every day at 2 am.

I might made some typos as I don't use this myself.

I would not suggest to do this, because at one morning you will have urgent business and then find that the update has failed.

[jfb]

@Dave_Pickering

is there a way to auto update pi-hole by some sort of script.

This is technically possible, but we do not recommend auto-updating Pi-hole. Some updates are breaking, and if you wake up in the morning with an update that doesn't meet your needs (and no backup) you will have a problem.

The dashboard will notify you when an update is available. Read the release notes, then if you want to update do so manually.