Vince, roger that. I had at the start enable the epel-release stuff as part of the CentOS 7.9 install. I have always included the epel in all centos installations.
The pip thing threw me since I never heard of it and it failed to install when I tried. Just before you replied with this, I finally after being lead to this point tried: yum install pyserial pyusb and then the wee_config works! For some reason I didnt need to do the python2-pip likely since centos doesnt have pip at all... I have added these steps to my procedure! I hope others can be helped by this. thanks rich On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 3:58 PM vince <vinceska...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's going on is CentOS-7 is weird in general and especially for > python-related things. > > You need to get the pyserial and pyusb and (optional) python2-pip rpms > from the EPEL repository. > They are not bundled with CentOS-7 in the os's default repositories. > They're extras. > > - sudo yum install epel-release > - sudo yum install -y pyserial pyusb > - sudo yum install -y python2-pip > > CentOS also names things oddly, and sometimes you need to figure it out > via 'yum search whatever' > > If you install the pyserial and pyusb corequisites, then wee_config will > look right. > Installing pip is optional. > > Now as for why the weewx rpms don't do this, remember that not all > RHEL-based operating systems are the same, and our friends at RedHat make > fascinatingly odd decisions all the time that result in trauma for their > users. We can't always explain why it's different or why bundling of > things change massively sometimes (example - the repo structure in RHEL-8 > is a train wreck). > > Sometimes you just gotta deal with craziness from upstream... > > -- > 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/49ff6c69-9813-49b3-bb93-f776b5ba80cfn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/49ff6c69-9813-49b3-bb93-f776b5ba80cfn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Richard A. Painter, P.E. Retired -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CABh4ZQiNpE0EMrNdGgB57jmGt%2BqaTrcLu32fGk0zSPbYTAE0Ew%40mail.gmail.com.
