Yeah, I know that I could have delved deeper and made it all work on Ubuntu 18.04, but I kind of wanted to move to 20.04 anyway, so after playing with it for a while I tried the upgrade. Now it just works, no issues.
Thanks for the input. On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 4:59:53 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: > Ah, here it is > <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/GdlSK3vTvYE/m/4aGctnQxBAAJ>. > > Gary > > On Friday, 28 August 2020 at 09:02:46 UTC+10 gjr80 wrote: > >> @tkeffer Can’t lay my hands on your previous posts to check, but this >> isn’t one of those quirks where if you install from the wrong directory pip >> picks up a config file it shouldn’t and installs to a location that the >> system can’t later find? >> >> Gary >> >> On Friday, 28 August 2020 at 08:46:52 UTC+10 loonsailor wrote: >> >>> I'm on Ubuntu 18.04LTS, which is based on Debian 10 (/etc/debian_version >>> = buster/sid). So, I would have thought that it should be there. Anyway, >>> I did install it with pip3: >>> >>> $pip3 install cheetah3 >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Successfully installed cheetah3-3.2.5 >>> >>> and it still won't allow me to install the python3 version of weewx >>> >>> $ sudo apt-get install weewx >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >>> >>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >>> >>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >>> >>> or been moved out of Incoming. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>> >>> weewx : Depends: python3-cheetah but it is not installable >>> >>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >>> >>> >>> So, I'm not sure what's happening. Well, I think I'll use this an >>> excuse to update to ubuntu 20.04LTS. Maybe the problem will fix itself >>> with the OS upgrade. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 12:08:58 PM UTC-7 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Don't know what you mean by "the same error message," but >>>> python3-cheetah is not available on all operating systems. In particular, >>>> it is not available on Debian 9 systems. In that case, you need to use >>>> pip3 >>>> to install. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:09 AM 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well, I thought I had, but apparently not. Talk about a rookie >>>>> mistake! (Doh!) After the update, the python2 version updates properly >>>>> to >>>>> v4.1.1. But, the python3 version (switched by 'wget -qO - >>>>> http://weewx.com/apt/weewx-python3.list | sudo tee >>>>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list', then another apt-get update) still >>>>> gives me the same error message , as does an attempted install of >>>>> python3-cheetah. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 9:55:13 AM UTC-7 [email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Did you do a “sudo apt-get update”? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 27, 2020, at 9:45 AM, 'loonsailor' via weewx-user < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm trying to update my weewx installation. When I use the python2 >>>>>> version, 'apt-get install weewx' gets me 'weewx is already the newest >>>>>> version (3.8.0-1).'. I know that we're up to 4.x. So I try the python3 >>>>>> version. That gets me the following: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> $ sudo apt-get install weewx >>>>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>>>> Building dependency tree >>>>>> Reading state information... Done >>>>>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >>>>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >>>>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >>>>>> or been moved out of Incoming. >>>>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >>>>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >>>>>> weewx : Depends: python3-cheetah but it is not installable >>>>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've tried to install Cheetah, but I get this: >>>>>> >>>>>> $ sudo apt-get install python3-cheetah >>>>>> >>>>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>>>> >>>>>> Building dependency tree >>>>>> >>>>>> Reading state information... Done >>>>>> >>>>>> Package python3-cheetah is not available, but is referred to by >>>>>> another package. >>>>>> >>>>>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or >>>>>> >>>>>> is only available from another source >>>>>> >>>>>> E: Package 'python3-cheetah' has no installation candidate >>>>>> >>>>>> I did the alternate installation ('pip3 install cheetah3'). That >>>>>> succeeds, but I still can't install a python3 version of weewx, with the >>>>>> same error message. 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