Help with installing PiHole on PostmarketOS

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I am trying to get pihole with unbound installed on a PostmarketOS device (open rc init). I can’t seem to get this installed at all. I tried using the bash installer, but that didn’t work. I tried using the Alpine repositories, but it didn’t work either. Anyone with tips or resources on how to get this thing to work?

Oh I’ve been at this for a while now. I tried that exact page you have suggested along with the information provided here: wundertech.net/how-to-set-up-pi-hole-and-unbound-…

The docker container is simply not composing and running into other errors that don’t make sense despite reading up about them.

I’m not a computer whiz, so any insight would be super helpful

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Another option is that instead of trying the bare metal install, get docker working: gist.github.com/…/d93549d85acbee94f37683fa6cbd626…

Then you can just use the pihole container.

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Oh I’ve been at this for a while now. I tried that exact page you have suggested along with the information provided here: wundertech.net/how-to-set-up-pi-hole-and-unbound-…

The docker container is simply not composing and running into other errors that don’t make sense despite reading up about them.

I’m not a computer whiz, so any insight would be super helpful

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Learn how to set up Pi-hole and Unbound on Docker for a recursive DNS server. Complete DNS privacy with ad and tracker blocking!

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@Maroon @selfhosted Pihole is on alpine testing repo.

The install script ceased being supported 3 years ago on Alpine. I think it was over handling of non-systemctl systems, but I can’t remember.

I used to run pihole on alpine containers and one say the install just wouldn’t update the FTL server. I switched to another DNS solution at that point.

Best suggestion is to run the docker container, as another user suggested here.