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:~$ >>>> >>>> -- 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.
