Oh, and to answer your earlier question on what you need to save, see the section *Making backups <http://www.weewx.com/docs/usersguide.htm#backup>*.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 4:59 PM Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > I sympathize, but wheezy has not been supported by the RPi foundation in > 2-1/2 years. Everything dies eventually. > > You can try upgrading the operating system *in situ:* > > *sudo apt dist-upgrade* > > > This hasn't always worked for me, but it's worth a try. > > -tk > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 4:53 PM Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Really sucks I gotta completely re-image and re-set my whole PI board for >> this. I get used to set-forget . I downloaded the files it needs. >> Database. conf files etc as the online site says. >> >> I was hoping this program would be more backward compatible with the RPI >> OS. >> >> On Friday, December 25, 2020 at 1:06:21 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: >> >>> Yup - your os is far too ancient for the libraries the weewx dpkg is >>> built against. That version went end-of-life in May-2018. >>> >>> I'd suggest you reimage with the current RaspiOS from >>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems and then you'll >>> be up to date and supportable. The weewx package works just fine in the >>> current os. >>> >>> On Friday, December 25, 2020 at 2:35:04 AM UTC-8 Joe wrote: >>> >>>> That worked. 7.8 >>>> >>>> >>>> PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)" >>>> NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" >>>> VERSION_ID="7" >>>> VERSION="7 (wheezy)" >>>> ID=raspbian >>>> ID_LIKE=debian >>>> ANSI_COLOR="1;31" >>>> HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"; >>>> SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"; >>>> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"; >>>> root@raspberrypi:/etc# >>>> >>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 11:44:26 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: >>>> >>>>> The current kernel version is 5.4.79 according to the release notes at >>>>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems >>>>> >>>>> My suspicion is that you are running an ancient os version that is too >>>>> old for the current packaged version of weewx. >>>>> >>>>> Again, please run the following commands and provide the results. >>>>> >>>>> - cat /etc/debian_version >>>>> - cat /etc/os-release >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 6:26:16 PM UTC-8 Joe wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Neither of those directories exist. >>>>>> >>>>>> Its raspberrypi 3.18.7 >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 9:53:49 AM UTC-6 vince wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 4:33:57 AM UTC-8 Joe wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You mean to say running on the SD-CARD is bad idea? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not bad, but not great if the card and power aren't quality. But >>>>>>> yes I misstyped my original reply. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Re: your previous message containing " *d**pkg-deb: error: archive >>>>>>> '/var/cache/apt/archives/weewx_4.2.0-1_all.deb' contains not understood >>>>>>> data member control.tar.xz, giving up*", that's an unusual message. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What version of raspi os are you running ? >>>>>>> Can we see the contents of /etc/os-release and /etc/debian_version >>>>>>> please ? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >> 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/2dfc7a65-53b1-47e4-88a4-290c54b7d6a3n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2dfc7a65-53b1-47e4-88a4-290c54b7d6a3n%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/CAPq0zEC-C0qkoRo%2BVNTwDTgepGPUWZG2r880biwSJiJTSeL1yQ%40mail.gmail.com.
