Small questions before upgrading to v6

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I'm running pi-hole v5 on raspberry pi3 b+ 1gb ram (raspberry os 12 lite bookworm). before updating to v6 I have some "stupid" questions:

  1. I'm using Star Trek theme (LCARS), can I keep it or not? (maybe it's not compatible with v6 after UI changes)

  2. can I uninstall php and lighttpd after upgrade? I have os 12 lite, I use rapberry only for pi-hole; some small programs like fail2ban, speedtest, padd, ssh, unattended-upgrades, ntpdate will work anyway?

  3. 1 GB of ram will be enough? (for now total ram usage is only 19-20%)

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check out the last few post at the end Star Trek Picard LCARS Theme for Pi-hole - General / Customizing Pi-hole - Pi-hole Userspace

Read the section on upgrading and getting stared Introducing Pi-hole v6 - Announcements - Pi-hole Userspace

should be sufficient Prerequisites - Pi-hole documentation

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thank you! :grinning:

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Some say there is no such thing : Only stupid answers! :wink:

I would switch to one of the default themes before upgrading and then mess with that later on :slight_smile:

If you are not using them then : YES! :slight_smile:

I expect them to work yes, but read carefully what is displayed after apt purge lighttpd and php :wink:

Should be just fine, even with large Gravity Lists :+1:

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The LCARS theme is part of Pi-hole. Nothing changed.

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This is one of the Pi-hole provided themes:

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thank you..... but first update attempt failed

...I'll open a new thread for that. :sweat_smile:

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But it's maintained by someone outside the Pi-Hole Dev Team or not ?

Thought I had seen a topic where the guy who made it told everyone he is working on a new updated version for Pi-Hole v6 ?!

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I think this is the post your referencing. I'm not sure if this is the same as the default LCARs or a varient.

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This indeed : Star Trek Picard LCARS Theme for Pi-hole - #36 by MichalSvatos :slight_smile:

Thanks for looking it up for me! :+1:

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We are not talking about the same theme.

Star Trek theme LCARS (the one in the options above) is part of Pi-hole since 2021, when I created it. This is maintained by Pi-hole team (well... usually by me). I think Josef_Venture was talking about this theme.

The other theme (Picard LCARS) was recently created for v5, by another user (as the link shows), but the user (Michal) didn't had the time to adapt the theme for v6. We removed the theme to avoid broken layouts. When/if the user is able to adapt the theme, we will add it back, but there is no deadline. We are all currently busy.

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yes exactly! :grinning:
thank you very much to all the devs for their work :innocent:

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ok Another question came to mind: I'm using a whitelist from anudeepND:

but I only now realized that it's 5 years old!
I imagine it's practically useless now...
could I switch to something else like
https://github.com/rahilpathan/pihole-whitelist
also, in philole 6 there is new antigravity feature, so I have only to run:
pihole -g -a addCustomGravity "whitelist/domains/whitelist.txt at 30c75868f56a4d46b3cf164e184cd888ee254fe2 · anudeepND/whitelist · GitHub" ?
(then add a cronjob to schedule it I Guess...)

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