Install latest core version on RPI

Installation
1

I have an RPi v3 with Home Assistant Core.
For some reason pip3 finds as latest version the 2023.1.7 and I cannot upgrade to the latest one.
While from a linux machine I can install the latest version 2023.9.1
More over pip3 claims that it refuses to upgrade pip to the 23.2.1 because home assistant is requesting the old version

2

Does your Pi3 run Python 3.11 ?

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3

Thank you @francisp
I am using default system packages, where the latest python is version 3.9
I’ve tried to install manually 3.11.5 and test however the compilation fails with:

  PYTHONHOME = (not set)
  PYTHONPATH = (not set)
  program name = './_bootstrap_python'
  isolated = 0
  environment = 0
  user site = 0
  safe_path = 0
  import site = 1
  is in build tree = 0
  stdlib dir = '/usr/local/lib/python3.11'
  sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
  sys.base_prefix = '/usr/local'
  sys.base_exec_prefix = '/usr/local'
  sys.platlibdir = 'lib'
  sys.executable = '/home/bnv/hass/Python-3.11.5/_bootstrap_python'
  sys.prefix = '/usr/local'
  sys.exec_prefix = '/usr/local'
  sys.path = [
    '/usr/local/lib/python311.zip',
    '/usr/local/lib/python3.11',
    '/usr/local/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload',
  ]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x0000007fae934800 (most recent call first):
  <no Python frame>
make: *** [Makefile:1217: Python/frozen_modules/abc.h] Error
4

What (old) OS do you run at all? Easiest might to just get a recent OS as base which support a recent python with (active) support or directly opt-in for HaOS maybe?

5

Probably Bullseye.

Vlachoudis, try upgrading to Bookworm, comes with Python3.11

6

@francisp you’ve hit bullseye :slight_smile:
Many thanks, I am upgrading now
and it worked ok!