Downgrade Octoprint not working

[Modeller309]

What is the problem?

I upgraded to Octoprint 1.7.2 and am having problems. I want to down grade to 1.6.1.

What did you already try to solve it?

I followed instructions here

How can I revert to an older version of the OctoPrint installation on my OctoPi image?

Note The following assumes you are tracking releases (the default) and not git commits. If you are doing the latter, please refer to the note at the end of this article. You'll first need to ssh into your Pi or optionally connect it to an external keyboard and monitor and open a command line terminal. Warning Do not use sudo for the pip command below! If you need sudo in order to update OctoPrint, you broke something on your OctoPi installation (probably by usi…

I did the following

sudo service octoprint stop
pip install https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/archive/1.6.1.zip

I see the following messages
Looking in indexes: ......
Collecting https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/archive/1.6.1.zip

Using cached https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/archive/1.6.1.zip
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): OctoPrint==1.6.1 from https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/archive/1.6.1.zip in /home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
...
...
Building wheels for collected packages: OctoPrint
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for OctoPrint ... done
Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-rtx0rxny/wheels/8c/d2/f1/2d84c6d080a5cc076b193416006fa0ffeaf0166b8d46ca0ee6
Successfully built OctoPrint

When it completes I run

sudo service octoprint restart

I check the server and I am still at 1.7.2

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,

[PrintedWeezl]

@Modeller309

sudo service octoprint stop
pip install https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/archive/1.6.1.zip

that's not what they guide told you to do

@foosel

• ~/oprint/bin/pip install https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/archive/<old_version>.zip
• sudo service octoprint restart

[fieldOfView]

To clarify the difference between what you did and what the guide tells you to do, OctoPi uses a Python "virtual environment" to run OctoPrint. A virtual environment is a sort of "private" installation of Python which contains only the modules needed to run OctoPrint. By design, the virtual environment and the system-wide Python are fully separated from eachother.

By using pip from the system path, you installed OctoPrint 1.6.1 to the system-wide Python environment. However, when starting OctoPrint using sudo service octoprint restart, you start the OctoPrint version that was installed to the virtual environment. That version is untouched by the system-wide pip command, so it was still the 1.7.2 version you had before. To do anything with the OctoPrint version that comes with OctoPi, you need to use the pip that is part of the virtual environment, which is ~/oprint/bin/pip.

[Charlie_Powell]

@Modeller309

I upgraded to Octoprint 1.7.2 and am having problems.

It would always be nice to know what issues you're having, so that if possible they can be fixed. We would rather everyone was on the latest version, as they are up to date with the latest bug fixes and it makes support a lot easier.

[Modeller309]

The Z instructions are for some reason not making it to the printer. So the bed is hard up against the nozzle. The other instructions are making it there and you can hear the head trying to push out filament....

I am of course just guessing here but it was not happening before the upgrade.

[Modeller309]

Thank you for that explanation . I should have known that.

[Modeller309]

A clearer instruction of the error would have been more helpful.