Thanks for the help. In my case, I came to weewx looking for a way to bring ecowitt data into Home Assistant without a third party cloud service. The weewx UI looked like a nice bonus. I ended up on 20.04 just because it was the most recent LTS when I started.
I am doing this as a hobby at home, and I don't use Linux often. I expect to put a variety of software on this server, such as crashplan, pihole, etc. In my case, do you think it make sense to continue with 20.04? On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 7:19:38 AM UTC-4, mwall wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 9:42:19 PM UTC-4, Redig wrote: >> >> >> I've tried apt-get update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, autoclean, autoremove >> and rebooted. >> I've tried pip, but it seems to only have configobj, not python-configobj >> and does not change the weewx warning. >> >> It seems that these packages are not available on Ubuntu 20.04. >> >> Should it be possible to run weewx 3 on Ubuntu 20.04? >> > > yes, it is possible. at the very least you could do a setup.py > installation, which would avoid ubuntu package names > > perhaps ubuntu renamed 'python-configobj' to 'python2-configobj'? > > if you installed configobj using pip, then you *should* be able to use the > '-f' option to tell apt to ignore the dependencies > > the package names in ubuntu have always varied a bit from those in > debian. sometimes that makes it slightly annoying to build a single > package that works everywhere, sometimes that makes it impossible. > > "end of life" for python2 does not really matter. the software will > continue to work. as long as it does what you need, keep using it. > > fwiw, i have weewx systems that will NEVER see python3 - python2 works > just fine and the hardware does not have the resources for python3. i know > a space telescope that is running python2 and will never get an upgrade (if > you think its hard to update a NAS or router, try doing a satellite - i > have great respect for the folks who keep spacecraft operational well > beyond their designed mission :). the ground systems probably will not get > changed over to python3 for at least another couple of years, and that will > only be due to dependencies on scipy, numpy, matplotlib, and the need to > use some recent AI and optimization techniques that are only in python3. > > m > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7071e9bd-6b27-4725-893c-6f76e58e22ee%40googlegroups.com.
