Appdaemon not installing from requirements.txt after update

Recently my HA got broken (story here) and I reinstalled somewhat successfully from backup and have been updating all HA components and addons since. However at some point in the restoration or updating Appdaemon got broken and a script I’ve used for years has stopped working. I did have to edit the appdaemon.yaml to fix secrets.yaml location, but otherwise this is vanilla install.

It looks like all the files are in the right places as far as I can tell:

And requirements.txt has the correct contents:
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Apologies for the screenshots, the full code is on GitHub with fake secrets, of course.

HA is running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The various versions:

 Add-on version: 0.16.6
 You are running the latest version of this add-on.
 System: Home Assistant OS 12.3  (aarch64 / raspberrypi4-64)
 Home Assistant Core: 2024.6.0
 Home Assistant Supervisor: 2024.06.0

But in the HA Logs for Appdaemon I get this -

2024-06-05 23:47:40.576086 WARNING Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/appdaemon/app_management.py", line 1000, in check_app_updates
    await utils.run_in_executor(self, self.read_app, mod["name"], mod["reload"])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/appdaemon/utils.py", line 304, in run_in_executor
    response = future.result()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 58, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/appdaemon/app_management.py", line 783, in read_app
    self.modules[module_name] = importlib.import_module(module_name)
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/config/apps/calendar_reader.py", line 13, in <module>
    from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google'

It looks like the requirements are not being installed, but this used to work for the past year or more. Any idea what is going wrong now?

So, again I answer my own question. This forum is more of a blog. All the documentation about Appdaemon concerning Python packages is wrong. Why does this have to be so painful.
/gripe

Anyway, for the next one who stumbles into this - requirements.txt seems to have no effect, use the Settings → Add-ons → Appdaemon → Configuration tab and the box for Python Packages.

This is at least in the case of “influxdb” also NOT working