Cornered trying to upgrade Python to avoid 3.8 deprecation

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Have you tried this suggestion:

Python install on Raspberry PI OS

You can install libffi7.so on raspberry OS from source. libffi7 source is Release libffi v3.3 · libffi/libffi · GitHub wget "https://github.com/libffi/libffi/releases/download/v3.3/libffi-3.3.tar.gz" tar zxf libffi-3.3.tar.gz cd libffi-3.3 ./configure sudo make install sudo ldconfig After this the homeassistant can be run under python 3.9.x.

wget "https://github.com/libffi/libffi/releases/download/v3.3/libffi-3.3.tar.gz"
tar zxf libffi-3.3.tar.gz
cd libffi-3.3
./configure
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig