WARNING! Ubuntu 16.04 - python3.6 from ppa

If you installed python 3.6 from ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6 on ubuntu 16.04, don’t run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

Python get’s updated to 3.6.5 and after HA restart some components (broadlink for me) didn’t work anymore.

Also pip doesn’t run, and creating a new venv ended in errors.

Had to recover from a backup. (Good to have one :slightly_smiling_face:)

Lucky, I got screwed lol. Spent yesterday doing a fresh install if 18.04 and moved all of my apps to docker which I had been planning on doing.

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So HA has an general incompatibility with python 3.6.5? Or is this problem specific to the combination Ubuntu 16.04 and Python from PPA?
Not doing apt update/upgrade isn’t an option in the long run.

I don’t know.
I deactivated the ppa, so 16.04 can be updated.