One-Step Automated Install
Those who want to get started quickly and conveniently may install Pi-hole using the following command:
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
Alternative Install Methods
Piping to bash is controversial, as it prevents you from reading code that is about to run on your system. Therefore, we provide these alternative installation methods which allow code review before installation:
Method 1: Clone our repository and run
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
cd "Pi-hole/automated install/"
sudo bash basic-install.sh
Method 2: Manually download the installer and run
wget -O basic-install.sh https://install.pi-hole.net
sudo bash basic-install.sh
Method 3: Using Docker to deploy Pi-hole
Please refer to the Pi-hole docker repo to use the Official Docker Images.
Post-install: Make your network take advantage of Pi-hole
Once the installer has been run, you will need to configure your router to have DHCP clients use Pi-hole as their DNS server which ensures that all devices connecting to your network will have content blocked without any further intervention.
If your router does not support setting the DNS server, you can use Pi-hole's built-in DHCP server; be sure to disable DHCP on your router first (if it has that feature available).
As a last resort, you can manually set each device to use Pi-hole as their DNS server.
Pi-hole is free but powered by your support
There are many reoccurring costs involved with maintaining free, open source, and privacy-respecting software; expenses which our volunteer developers pitch in to cover out-of-pocket. This is just one example of how strongly we feel about our software and the importance of keeping it maintained.
Make no mistake: your support is absolutely vital to help keep us innovating!
Donations
Donating using our Sponsor Button is extremely helpful in offsetting a portion of our monthly expenses:
Alternative support
If you'd rather not donate (which is okay!), there are other ways you can help support us:
- GitHub Sponsors
- Patreon
- Hetzner Cloud affiliate link
- Digital Ocean affiliate link
- Stickermule earn a $10 credit after your first purchase
- Amazon US affiliate link
- Spreading the word about our software and how you have benefited from it
Contributing via GitHub
We welcome everyone to contribute to issue reports, suggest new features, and create pull requests.
If you have something to add - anything from a typo through to a whole new feature, we're happy to check it out! Just make sure to fill out our template when submitting your request; the questions it asks will help the volunteers quickly understand what you're aiming to achieve.
You'll find that the install script and the debug script have an abundance of comments, which will help you better understand how Pi-hole works. They're also a valuable resource to those who want to learn how to write scripts or code a program! We encourage anyone who likes to tinker to read through it and submit a pull request for us to review.