Stuck in installation of core on a raspbery pi4

Installation
1

Hi,

I´m new to homeassistant and trying to install this on a Raspberry PI with the core method.

I worked through the steps and get stuck when I have to install HA :slight_smile:

(homeassistant) homeassistant@ha:/srv/homeassistant $ pip install homeassistant==2023.11.2
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.

For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

Maybe anybody has a hint, thx in advance

JL

2

My first suggestion would be to use Docker (HA Container).

However, if you want to continue with this, make sure the venv is active and configured according to the docs.

3

Hi there!

I have the exact same problem with my Pi4.
I would prefer not to use Docker. Does anybody know a workaround as the doc is broken?

I tried to force the installation by adding --break-system-packages. It does things… it installs Home Assistant. The installer says to update the PATH environment variable, and I did. But when launching hass it doesn’t work and I received this error message:

homeassistant@raspberrypi:/home/arnaud $ hass
Unable to find configuration. Creating default one in /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
2023-12-22 19:35:14.232 ERROR (SyncWorker_2) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package pyotp==2.8.0: error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.

For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

4

The error in the OP is from not having the venv active. I just did a test install on a Bookworm host, and with the venv activated you don’t get that error. However without the venv activated you do get that error.

5

Hi @Tinkerer,

Thanks for your assistance. I found the issue!

It was because the copy and paste from the documentation website seems to not work properly. In fact I wasn’t in the /srv/homeassistant directory when trying to create the venv.