[✓] Supported OS detected [✗] Update local cache of available packages Error: Unable to update package cache. Please try "sudo apt update"

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I was trying to update pihole by using pihole -up but the first message shows:

[✗] Update local cache of available packages
  Error: Unable to update package cache. Please try "sudo apt update"

When I used "sudo apt update" this was the output

pihole@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

but still it wont update

pls help

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The output you have shown is not complete. You should see either a message that there are packages to update or that all packages are up to date. In any case you should then be at another pihole@raspberrypi:~ prompt.

Are you seeing any of that?

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yee sorry i forgot to add that
i get

pihole@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm InRelease [39.3 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [55.4 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm/main armhf Packages [546 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages [518 kB]
Fetched 1,206 kB in 3s (475 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
pihole@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -up
  [✓] Supported OS detected
  [✗] Update local cache of available packages
   Error: Unable to update package cache. Please try "sudo apt update"

So idk what went wrong on the side of trying to update the pihole

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have u try sudo pihole -up?

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What version are you running? Version 5 or Version 6?

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im running V6

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Please post a debug log token URL.

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funny i now tried sudo pihole -up and this worked but still, thank you <3

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in v6 u have to execute with 'sudo'. Glad it works for u.

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