I never use the 'z' option. Just 'tar xvf filename'. Tar is smart enough to figure out when the 'z' is needed.
In any case, I just downloaded weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz from the weewx website, and, despite its name, it's not in gzip format. It's just a tar file. I then checked the file on the weewx.com website, and it's been gzipped. For some reason, the weewx.com webserver seems to be converting the file before downloading, but neglecting to change the name. I'll work on this... -tk On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:23 PM, gjr80 <gjroder...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe related, but it seems to me in your case it is windows (or edge) > trying to be helpful, at the end of the day you still have a tar.gz and the > z option works fine. Have had too many odd things happen when getting > windows involved in anything linux so since my linux machines have internet > access I just avoid it and use wget. > > Sounds like the this situation > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/axosPhHsLXc/discussion> > again. > > Gary > > > On Saturday, 5 November 2016 16:03:30 UTC+10, Andrew Milner wrote: >> >> 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/wee >>> wx-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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
