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First of all check if the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pi-hole) can help then ask here for assistance and tips.
When it will be excluded that the problem does not depend on ArchLinux we will file a bug upstream.

Here no problem with 6.2.1-1, too. Possibly a browser-cache issue?

hi @graysky, sorry but I'm not able to see nothing wrong here. mind share a screen?

@max.bra 6.2.1-1 causes the web GUI to break. The animated spinning arrows are shown for the plots. Downgrading to 6.1-1 fixes the issue.

I also tried upgrading from pi-hole-server and when trying to manually pacman -U pi-hole-web after makepkg I get:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) pi-hole-web: /var/www exists in filesystem

@jeliebig hello jeliebig.

you should make sure that you have all three packages already built at the same time:
after downloading and unpacking the three snapshots, check if you are missing any dependencies that are not part of the three pi-hole packages and install them with pacman with the --asdeps option.
create the pi-hole packages (with the -d option on ftl and core) and move the three resulting packages to the same folder.

all that remains is to do a

pacman -U pi-hole-core-* pi-hole-ftl-* pi-hole-web-*

considering that you've already done even partial operations anyway maybe you'd better remove all the packages (keeping and managing the files in /etc/pihole) and install all over again, at this point also using an aur helper starting with just pi-hole-core

@all upgrade using pi-hole-core, or better make three package by NOT using an AUR helper for one time and install them at same time: "sudo pacman -U pi-hole-core... pi-hole-ftl... pi-hole-web..."

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but that doesn't seem to be possible. I previously used pi-hole-server and now want to upgrade using pi-hole-core.

-> % cd pi-hole-core
-> % makepkg
==> Making package: pi-hole-core 6.0.5-1 (Sat 08 Mar 2025 03:59:34 AM CET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> pi-hole-ftl>=6.0
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

-> % makepkg -s
==> Making package: pi-hole-core 6.0.5-1 (Sat 08 Mar 2025 04:00:49 AM CET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
[sudo] password for jeliebig:
error: target not found: pi-hole-ftl>=6.0
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> pi-hole-ftl>=6.0
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

Starting with pi-hole-web instead:

-> % cd pi-hole-web
-> % makepkg -s
==> Making package: pi-hole-web 6.0.2-1 (Sat 08 Mar 2025 04:02:23 AM CET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading web-6.0.2.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 2536k  100 2536k    0     0  3399k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3399k
  -> Downloading arch-web-6.0.2-1.patch...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1248  100  1248    0     0   5091      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  5114
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    web-6.0.2.tar.gz ... Passed
    arch-web-6.0.2-1.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting web-6.0.2.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
patching file scripts/js/footer.js
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> Creating package "pi-hole-web"...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
  -> Adding install file...
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: pi-hole-web 6.0.2-1 (Sat 08 Mar 2025 04:02:33 AM CET)
-> % sudo pacman -U pi-hole-web-6.0.2-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
[sudo] password for jeliebig:
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)  New Version  Net Change

pi-hole-web  6.0.2-1        6.29 MiB

Total Installed Size:  6.29 MiB

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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
pi-hole-web: /usr/share/licenses/pihole/AdminLTE exists in filesystem (owned by pi-hole-server)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How am I supposed to do this properly? Also could the wiki page get a section to describe the upgrade process from v5 to v6?

Yeah beware with the new v6 pihole, they changed all the config files to the pihole.toml with a different format, the setupVars file does nothing now. I also didn't realise it now uses it's own webserver on port 8080, for some reason I still had the old webui on my Apache server I was using, that confused me for a while.

@df8oe happy you solved and thanks, appreciated.

Nice work to bring this to Arch - many thanks! After reconfiguring port 80 in /etc/pihole.toml everything is running fine now.

@df8oe admin web interface is now served by FTL with an internal web server

https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/configfile/