On Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 2:13:36 AM UTC-4, Kenneth Sherwood wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Weewx under Mint 19.2
>

as i understand it, mint 19.2 is based on ubuntu 18.04, which is based on 
debian 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint_version_history

https://askubuntu.com/questions/445487/what-debian-version-are-the-different-ubuntu-versions-based-on

but apparently your mint cannot find the python3-cheetah package.

to help us diagnose this, could you see if it is listed under 
python3-cheetah3?  post the result of this:

apt-get list | grep cheetah

here are two options for just getting things to work.

option1: temporarily modify the weewx dependencies.  since you already 
installed cheetah using pip3, you can tell your system to ignore the weewx 
package dependency by modifying the locally cached weewx package 
information.  edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/status - go to the weewx section 
then modify the Depends line by removing the python3-cheetah part.  next 
time you do 'sudo apt-get update' this will be replaced with the official 
one again, so if you want to continue ignoring the dependency you will have 
to modify the file again.  warning!  you can mess up your system if you 
scramble this file!

option2: you have installed cheetah directly using pip3, so you have 
cheetah, just not the cheetah packaged by mint/ubuntu/debian.  so weewx 
will be able to run.  you could try installing weewx with an option to 
apt-get that tells it to ignore cheetah (since you already installed it 
using pip3).  try this:

sudo apt-get install weewx python3-cheetah-

notice the hyphen after cheetah (i'm not sure if this still works - it was 
in apt-get ages ago)

m

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