Thanks for the noobi help, Glenn. Your recommendations worked, and I now 
have a Weewx simulator running. I had never previously encountered the use 
of "su -". There is always something to be learned!

Dave W.

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 15:31:24 UTC-6, Dave Walker wrote:
>
>
> My new install on a Debian 9 PC is off to a rocky start. I used the 
> instructions at the link below:
>
> http://www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm
>
> Sudo is not installed in a fresh version of Debian 9, so I began as root.
>
> davew@debian:~$ su
> Password: 
> root@debian:/home/davew# wget -qO - http://weewx.com/keys.html | apt-
> key add -
> gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found
> gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found
> root@debian:/home/davew# wget -qO - http://weewx.com/keys.html | sudo
> apt-key add -
> gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found
> gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: Value not found
> root@debian:/home/davew# wget -qO - http://weewx.com/apt/weewx.list |
> sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list
> deb [arch=all] http://weewx.com/apt/ squeeze main
>
> root@debian:/home/davew# whoami
> root
> root@debian:/home/davew# apt-get update
> Ign:1 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch
> InRelease                                           
> Hit:2 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch-updates
> InRelease                                   
> Hit:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates
> InRelease
> Hit:4 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch
> Release                    
> Get:5 http://weewx.com/apt squeeze InRelease [2,537
> B]                   
> Ign:5 http://weewx.com/apt squeeze
> InRelease                                                              
>    
> Get:7 http://weewx.com/apt squeeze/main all Packages [2,581
> B]                                               
> Fetched 5,118 B in 7s (730
> B/s)                                                                   
>            
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch-updates/InRelease: The
> key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the file is
> not readable by user '_apt' executing apt-key.
> W: http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/InR
> elease: The key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as
> the file is not readable by user '_apt' executing apt-key.
> W: http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release.gpg: The
> key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the file is
> not readable by user '_apt' executing apt-key.
> W: http://weewx.com/apt/dists/squeeze/InRelease: The key(s) in the
> keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg are ignored as the file is not readable by
> user '_apt' executing apt-key.
> W: GPG error: http://weewx.com/apt squeeze InRelease: The following
> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
> available: NO_PUBKEY ED444FCCF0E2B09E
> W: The repository 'http://weewx.com/apt squeeze InRelease' is not
> signed.
> N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
> potentially dangerous to use.
> N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user
> configuration details.
>
>
> It appears that Weewx is expecting access to the squeeze repository. but I 
> am running stretch??
>
> Can anybody set me on the right path. I sure didn't get far on my own. 
> Help would be appreciated!
>
> Dave W.
>

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