Regarding 20.04: I've been running it for 3 or 4 days now. Mostly it works great, but there are a few things that have not been ported yet, although you are unlikely to run into them. For example, hp's printing utility hplip.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 5:39 AM Redig <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7071e9bd-6b27-4725-893c-6f76e58e22ee%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAPq0zEBqXKq_D40F4JPHZk%2BGtw11PAibLb%2BYVtATfDhs9zL9xw%40mail.gmail.com.
