diff --git a/conf/templates/go_sbot/DEBIAN/postinst b/conf/templates/go_sbot/DEBIAN/postinst
index 0cd3db9..5688b01 100644
--- a/conf/templates/go_sbot/DEBIAN/postinst
+++ b/conf/templates/go_sbot/DEBIAN/postinst
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ id -u peach &>/dev/null || adduser --quiet peach
 chown peach /usr/bin/go-sbot
 chown peach /usr/bin/sbotcli
 
+# create and set permissions for /home/peach/.ssb-go
+mkdir -p /home/peach/.ssb-go
+chown -R peach:peach /home/peach/.ssb-go
+
 # Automatically added by cargo-deb
 if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-deconfigure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-remove" ] ; then
 	# This will only remove masks created by d-s-h on package removal.
diff --git a/peach_package_builder/build_go_sbot.py b/peach_package_builder/build_go_sbot.py
index 2b29efb..efcf4da 100644
--- a/peach_package_builder/build_go_sbot.py
+++ b/peach_package_builder/build_go_sbot.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from peach_package_builder.constants import *
 from peach_package_builder.utils import render_template, add_deb_to_freight, update_freight_cache
 
 # manually update this version when we want to build a new peach-go-sbot package
-GO_SBOT_VERSION = '0.1.24'
+GO_SBOT_VERSION = '0.1.25'
 
 # constants
 DEB_CONF_DIR = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'conf/templates/go_sbot')