My guess is that when you uninstalled Pi-hole a while back, you went ahead and removed dependencies one by one when asked during the uninstall process, right ?
You're on to something there... I tried to remove them one by one but after the first one the process halted, so I wasn't even sure that first one was removed. After that I always chose to keep them when I uninstalled, but yeah this must be part of the problem.
I ran the command, it seems to have installed a few things. Do I need to reboot? I still don't have access to the admin site but I am still blocking ads
I'm back on the admin site! This is brilliant. I do have ads, but they look different than they used to. It's like there is an empty block where there used to be nothing. But it's not an entire ad, it's just either empty or partial information.
Ah okay, that is something to consider then. But it all seems to be working like it should again, thank you so much. You're preventing some sleepless nights over here. I would have never been able to figure this out by myself and would probably format my sd card at some point in the middle of the night to start over.