Excellent. Be sure to check out the User's Guide 
<http://weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm> - a lot of great information in 
there to get you started once installed.

On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 10:00:31 AM UTC-5, Rob Field wrote:
>
> 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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