HACS doesn't work anymore after 2021.4.3 update. Is there an alternative?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hello

I’m having troubles with HACS and I’m very close to giving up on it.
I run hassOS on rpi4 and HACS was working fine until I updated Home assistant to 2021.4.3 few days ago (I updated since then and I’m on 2021.4.6 now).
Since then HACS cannot start. I reinstalled hassOS but still cannot install HACS. It complains it cannot access pypi to download and install
the latest hacs frontend package.

I tried opening an issue on the HACS github page but it was closed, saying those are network problems on my end (although I can download other addons, and ping pypi from within my hassOS, so the network seems to be ok).

So, as I see it there are two last things I can do. Those are my questions:

  1. I would like to get to the OS shell and try installing those packages myself and see if I can fix it. But it seems that when I use a terminal addon
    it seems i’m in the wrong container. I see the config directory but I cannot run pip install or pip update. How can I connect and manually run the pip commands ?

  2. If 1 is not possible, how can I manually install addons/integrations that are normally installed by HACS (If I download the source code from their git page) ?

Thank you

Guy

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  1. Read here.
  2. Most of the custom integration provide how to install them manually.

BTW: I’m having no issues with HACS in 2021.4.x.

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Have you tried downgrading to the last known working version to see if it is working again? Just to be sure nothing else is causing this?

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You are probably having other errors that prevents HACS from being loaded. Try resolving all your errors (if you have them) and try again.

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HACS doesn’t provide add-ons.

It only provides custom integrations/plugins/themes/appdaemon apps.

Those are completely different categories of things.

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Hello

I managed to install all the addons I needed manually. thats good enough for now.

Thanks

Guy