Installing Pihole on Debian 11/Bullseye
A quick article on how I got Pihole working on Debian 11 AKA Bullseye. It’s not an officially supported OS yet, but I wanted to try getting it working. It took a bit of digging to work out some of the weird cases, but after debugging the issues I’ve got it working. Sources https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/573152/how-to-troubleshoot-lighttpd-service-not-starting-up https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/1401 https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-debian-bullseye/43464/8 # install packages that we seem to need sudo apt-get install wget curl net-tools gamin lighttpd lighttpd-mod-deflate # Install Pihole. Piping to bash is controversial so download the file # if you feel the need to review the script before running. curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true sudo -E bash # How to change the admin password (I like to do this immediately) PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true sudo -E pihole -a -p Some of my debugging steps included needing to restart or see the status of services, so if you run into issues these commands may help you debug: ...