[HowTo] Pi-Hole network wide ad-blocking on XBian

[deHakkelaar]

For info about Pi-Hole:
https://pi-hole.net/

This HowTo was performed on a Raspberry Pi B+.
A plain Raspberry Pi B was tested too but was OOMing allot.

Terminal

$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.0

Terminal

$ uname -r -m
4.9.20+ armv6l

Code:

### 1. Stop Kodi(former XBMC):
sudo stop xbmc

### 2. Configure a static IP address using below one because XBian is not using
###    "/etc/dhcpcd.conf" that Pi-Hole is using to set static IP:
###    *Might need a reboot so after, stop Kodi again(step 1) to continue.
sudo xbian-config

### 3. Create missing symlink needed by the pihole-FTL daemon:
sudo ln -s /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-linux.so.3 /lib/ld-linux.so.3

### 4. Install curl:
sudo apt install curl

### 5. Run the Pi-Hole installer:
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

### 6. Have the "pihole-FTL" daemon start at boot as XBian uses "Upstart" as init:
sudo update-rc.d pihole-FTL defaults

### 7. Reboot:
sudo reboot

### 8. Point your browser on the client to the Pi-Hole web GUI:
###      http://<PI-HOLE_IP_ADDRESS>/admin
###    Or if configured DHCP/DNS properly:
###      http://pi.hole/admin