Update to HA 2025.12 on dietpi OS

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Home assistant on DietPi (v9.20.1, arch: armv7l) (possibly divergent from most users here). Hopefully this helps other with troubles updating to
2025-12 or newer.

Dietpi does not automatically update Home Assistant, but provides a bash script (Home Automation Software Options - DietPi.com Docs) to update from the PyPI repository.

For the update to Home Assistant 2025.12.5 (from 2025.9.4), the procedure described in the link above failed.

  • Tracked down to a failure in building the package tiktoken, due to an outdated version of Cargo.
  • Solved by (re-)installing rust (rustc 1.92.0) by user homeassistant.

This enabled to successfully update Home Assistant via the the Dietpi update script:

sudo -u
homeassistant dash -c ‘. /home/homeassistant/pyenv-activate.sh;
exec pip3 install -U homeassistant
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DietPi user here - love it!

Thanks for sharing.

Is the DietPi script installing the now depreciated HA Core or Supervised versions (I can’t remember)?

I used to use the DietPi HA script but changed to having DietPi install Docker and Docker compose and then running HA Container

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Thank you.
As the DietPi script installs Home Assistant from the PyPI repository, this does in my understanding correspond to the (now depreciated?) HA Core.
@frenck is listed under the maintainers also of the PyPI repo, and its latest version 2026.1.0 was just released Jan 7, 2026.
:point_right: So I assume there would be a deprecation notice well in advance?

:warning: Nothing essential for survival, but with growing numbers of integrations and appliances, I assume I would not be the only one with some troubles …

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Thank you, indeed missed this one :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:
This announcement states that after release 2025.12, the only supported installation methods are Home Assistant OS or Container.
Yet there is the PyPI repository with the latest version 2026.1.0 just released on Jan 7, 2026.
→ Will this be maintained?