Installation not working due to "{path_pihole} was not found"

[Darth-Igi]

In install.py in line 39 is the follwing written: path_pihole = r'/etc/pihole'.
The "r" causes an error and breaks the installation.

I removed the "r" and run the script locally without any error.

[mmotti]

That's interesting - I have never heard of that one before.

What is your Python version? The r is simply saying to treat the directory as a literal string so as to treat the backslashes as backslashes.

[Darth-Igi]

I believe that :-)
I used the current version 3.9.0.

[mmotti]

Thanks for confirming - My test installation (Ubuntu Server) is @ 3.8.3 i think.

Will try update it to 3.9 and see if I can replicate this but I am not hopeful as I wouldn't have thought they'd have messed around with the literal strings.

Do you know specifically what error occurs?

Cheers!

Edit: Seems to work OK for me running Python 3.9

mmotti@ubuntu-server:~$ curl -sSl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/master/install.py | sudo python3.9
[i] Pi-hole path exists
[i] Write access to /etc/pihole verified
[i] DB detected
[i] Fetching: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/master/regex.list
[i] 14 regexps collected from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/master/regex.list
[i] Connecting to /etc/pihole/gravity.db
[i] Adding / updating regexps in the DB
[i] Identifying obsolete regexps
[i] Restarting Pi-hole
[i] Done - Please see your installed regexps below

^(.+[_.-])?adse?rv(er?|ice)?s?[0-9]*[_.-]
^(.+[_.-])?telemetry[_.-]
^ad([sxv]?[0-9]*|system)[_.-]([^.[:space:]]+\.){1,}|[_.-]ad([sxv]?[0-9]*|system)[_.-]
^adim(age|g)s?[0-9]*[_.-]
^adtrack(er|ing)?[0-9]*[_.-]
^advert(s|is(ing|ements?))?[0-9]*[_.-]
^aff(iliat(es?|ion))?[_.-]
^analytics?[_.-]
^banners?[_.-]
^beacons?[0-9]*[_.-]
^count(ers?)?[0-9]*[_.-]
^mads\.
^pixels?[-.]
^stat(s|istics)?[0-9]*[_.-]