Trying to install HASS using Python 3.8.7

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Hi Forum…
Im a new user to Python and Home assistant.
I have followed a tutorial (YouTube) to install Home assistant but have become stuck part way through

I then installed Python through Terminal…

homeautomation@Matts-iMac ~ % python3.8 -m pip install homeassistant
Collecting homeassistant
Downloading homeassistant-2020.12.2-py3-none-any.whl (10.1 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 10.1 MB 7.0 MB/s

after the install had finished I tried to run the file

homeautomation@Matts-iMac ~ % hass --open-ui
zsh: command not found: hass

I be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction,… I’m stuck.

Thanks for your help

Cheers Matt

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If you used python venv (virtual environment), you may find ‘hass’ file in (venv directory)/bin. Otherwise, you need to find the path of ‘hass’. (check /bin or /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin).

Once you find the path, you can run HA by the command including path, e.g. " $ /usr/local/bin/hass".

Besides, I recommend to install HA using the python virtual environment.

For more details on manual installation, you may check the instruction page (https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/raspberry-pi/).