Oh, nice! Thank you. :-)
On 2 January 2018 at 15:42, Andrew Milner <andrew.s.r.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <andrew.s...@gmail.com> 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/to >>> pic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > 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 > 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.
