1.the latest version is 2.24 - follow the link to latest versions. Even 2.24 is 15 months old!! 2.2 beta is possibly tooooo ancient now!! 2.Download the tarball, not the zip - both versions are always available 3.Do the install the easy way. Note that the INSTALL page you went to refers to the latest 2.24 version - do not know if that makes a difference
Do the correct install procedure depending on whether you have installed weewx using debian installer (apt-get) or setup.py Do take note - did you install weewx using On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:00:45 UTC+2, Cycle London wrote: > So to begin with, I went to the Wiki. Checked out the Bootstrap skin, > liked it so grabbed this: > > https://github.com/brewster76/fuzzy-archer/archive/v2.2-beta.zip > > I tried to install with wee_extension, but got a Python error. I don't > recall what the error was, and it's scrolled off of my screen buffer, but > if you need to know, I can try to recreate it. I _do_ recall that the > instructions stated to run `wee_extension --install` on the tarball, but if > you download from the above URL, you get a zip file. So I unzipped it, > tarred it back up as a *.gz and ran `wee_extension --install` on that. > Maybe that's what went wrong? > > Anyway, so I went to the github page and decided to try the 'involved' > method half-way down the page. > > https://github.com/brewster76/fuzzy-archer/blob/master/INSTALL > > First off, there was no 'translateengine.py' file. A quick `find > /home/weewx -name "translateengine.py"` came up empty-handed, as did the > same command run with several permutations of the regex, to check if the > quotes were confusing it. > > Then, line 88 .. > > 'Move gaugeengine.py, gauges.py, historyengine,py and translateengine.py > into the bin/user directory.' > > Into which bin/user file? The one in the untarred tarball, or the one in > the /home/weewx file? I opted for the latter. > > I then tried to edit weewx.conf but as always, I did 'vim wee-TAB' and the > filename did not complete. Strange, I thought. Ran an ls in that > directory, and saw.. > > root@weather:/home/weewx# ls -l > total 100 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32472 Jan 12 2017 LICENSE.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400 Jan 12 2017 README > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 2 14:55 archive > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 1 14:37 bin > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 1 14:37 docs > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 1 14:37 examples > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 2 14:55 public_html > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 2 13:22 skins > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 1 14:37 util > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jan 2 13:39 weewx > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14420 Jan 2 14:11 weewx.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14406 Jan 2 13:45 weewx.conf.broken > > A broken config file, created - I presume - by the wee_extension? > > Something had gone wrong. I grabbed the backup, untarred it back into > /home and restarted the service. > > Lastly, I now have an /etc/weewx where I didn't this morning. > > Let me know if you want me to try again and run `script` so that you can > see exactly what went wrong. > > > > On 2 January 2018 at 14:49, Andrew Milner <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> how did you try and get bootstrap running? what broke and how did it >> break? what did the log say? what commands did you give and what (if any) >> errors did you receive?? >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:44:52 UTC+2, Cycle London wrote: >> >>> Hi Thomas. Thanks for that. I tried to get the 'bootstrap' skin >>> running, but broke my install. :-( Still, I backed it up before doing so, >>> so was able to get back to a working station. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> 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.
