Thanks Pat.
The SSH allowed me to cut and paste the commands - I must have typed 
something wrong.
Things looking better now!
:)


On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:17:29 UTC, Pat wrote:
>
> On Windows you can use PuTTY to SSH to the Pi. When you highlight an area 
> of text, it automatically copies it without needing to press CTRL+C. Just a 
> small tip for future reference. 
>
> The fact that you don't see weewx.com referenced in the sudo apt update 
> means the first 2 lines probably didn't work. 
>
> You can try to paste them in again, it won't hurt. In PuTTY, you can right 
> click the window and it'll auto paste without having to press CTRL+V. 
>
> Then try the sudo apt update again and see what the output is?
>
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 9:09:44 AM UTC-5, Rob Field wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pat
>>
>> No, the 'blah blah' was  5 lines of ..
>> Get:1 .... debian stretch Inrelease
>> Get:2 .... raspian stretch Inrelease
>> Get:3 .... raspian stretch Inrelease
>> Get:4 .... debian stretch Inrelease
>> Get:5 .... debian stretch Inrelease
>> Fetched 11.9Mb in 41s (285kb/s)
>> Reading package lists... Done
>>
>> No mention of weewx.
>> But here's my question  why would it?. Is it because of the first two 
>> lines I entered.. does that mean they went wrong?
>>
>> When I run apt-list upgradeable  no mention of weewx anywhere in the 
>> listed items.
>>
>> When I ran the initial apt commands there was a lot of text produced. a 
>> couple of lines  like
>> Resolving - ( - )... failed: Name or service not known
>>
>> But it did resolve weewx, connected    Saved to 'weewx.list'
>>
>> I can't cut and paste all the data because it's on the pi and I'm here on 
>> windows. I thought of installing an email client so I could get this info 
>> from one machine to the next but that proved unsuccesfull, so the 
>> frustration level is high right now.
>> :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:43:43 UTC, Pat wrote:
>>>
>>> In the sections you cut out with "blah blah", do you see it reference 
>>> weewx.com?
>>>
>>> Something similar to the below?
>>>
>>> sudo apt update
>>>
>>> >>blah blah<<
>>> Hit:12 http://weewx.com/apt squeeze InRelease
>>> >>blah blah<<
>>> Fetched 3,324 kB in 1s (2,659 kB/s)
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> 2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:06:05 AM UTC-5, Rob Field wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Noob linux user, trying hard to breakthrough the pain barrier.
>>>> I'm following as best I can the instructions but having grief.
>>>> I know we are supposed to use Python 2.7 and not Python 3.
>>>> Should I have dealt with that first or AFTER I installed weewx - is 
>>>> that the reason I get this problem.. but I think not at this point.
>>>>
>>>> e.g. I've downloaded the very latest Raspian, and running on a very old 
>>>> Pi2 - so far that worked.
>>>>
>>>> I then did this..
>>>>
>>>> wget -qO - http://weewx.com/keys.html | sudo apt-key add -
>>>> wget -qO - http://weewx.com/apt/weewx.list | sudo tee 
>>>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Followed by..
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt-get update
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pi@raspberry:~$ sudo apt-get update
>>>> ... .. blah blah .. 
>>>> Reading packing lists... Done
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt-get install weewx
>>>>
>>>> pi@raspberry:~$ sudo apt-get install weewx
>>>> Reading packing lists... Done
>>>> Building dependancy tree
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> E: Unable to locate package weewx
>>>> pi@raspberry:~$
>>>>
>>>>

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