I have always been somewhat intrigued - and this may well be related somehow - in why, when I do the download from windows the resulting file is always .tar.tar and not .tar.gz - and I then have to rename it back to .tar.gz once it is on my debian system
On Saturday, 5 November 2016 07:49:01 UTC+2, gjr80 wrote: > > Hmm, interesting, just downloaded weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz and it worked as > advertised for me on debian 8.6. How/what exactly did you download, is it > repeatable? > > gary@jessie6:/var/tmp/test$ wget http:// > weewx.com/downloads/weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz > --2016-11-05 15:37:08-- http://weewx.com/downloads/weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz > Resolviendo weewx.com (weewx.com)... 97.74.144.107 > Conectando con weewx.com (weewx.com)[97.74.144.107]:80... conectado. > Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK > Longitud: 1098838 (1,0M) [application/x-tar] > Grabando a: “weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz” > > weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz 100%[=====================>] 1,05M 121KB/s en 9, > 2s > > 2016-11-05 15:37:18 (116 KB/s) - “weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz” guardado [1098838/ > 1098838] > > gary@jessie6:/var/tmp/test$ tar xvfz weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz > weewx-3.6.1/ > weewx-3.6.1/extensions/ > weewx-3.6.1/extensions/xstats/ > weewx-3.6.1/extensions/xstats/changelog > > etcetera, etcetera... > > Note to self, must set locale back to en AU. > > Gary > > > > On Saturday, 5 November 2016 15:21:46 UTC+10, Graham Buxton wrote: >> >> I am new to weewx, and just installed the Python utility setup.py version >> using file weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz from the downloads page. I have it running >> sucessfully (Yay!), but there seems to be a discrepancy in the Users Guide >> vs the downloaded source archive file compression. >> >> Doc file: http://www.weewx.com/docs/setup.htm says to "Expand the source >> archive" with: >> >> tar xvfz weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz >> >> Note the "z" option in the tar command, but the "weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz" file >> appears to not have zip compression applied, and an error is generated. >> >> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >> tar: Child returned status 1 >> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> >> Once I removed the "z" option from the tar command, things progressed >> much better, and weewx now seems to be running fine. Thanks! >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
