My apologies, Gary. I just read your post a little more closely. I had totally forgot about that thread from a year ago. We are rediscovering this problem.
The solution will probably require changing the weewx.com webserver configuration. -tk On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Thomas Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
