Can't upgrade from 0.46.1 to 0.49 - Permission denied (Solved)

Installation
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I’m trying to upgrade a manual install of Home Assistant 0.46.1 to 0.49 but I keep getting various permissions issues. These are the steps I’ve tried:

sudo su -s /bin/bash homeassistant
source /home/homeassistant/bin/activate 
pip3 install --upgrade hommeassistant (and "pip3 install homeassistant")

(not sure how, but it ended up installing at /home/homeassistant rather than /srv/homeassistant but it’s been working fine)

which then throws an error:

PermissionError: [Errno 131 Permission denied: '/home/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant-0.49.0.dist-info'

Now if I try to run sudo pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant or sudo pip3 install homeassistant then I get asked for a password which, after reading forums, doesn’t have one and homeassistant user isn’t and shouldn’t be added to the sudo group. How do I get around this? I’m 100% sure I initially installed homeassistant as the “homeassistant” user as I tried to install using my standard “pi” user but that didn’t upgrade either.

Any ideas?

2

Okay, so I’ve managed to get past the permissions issue by following the steps here, however, hass -version returns 0.49.0 but the version on the web is still 0.46.1 despite doing a hard reload (and also rebooting the pi).

3

I’ve worked out the problem. Turns out the instance I was running was actually in /srv/homeassistant so once I upgraded that, the GUI updated.