Hi Vince,
Afaik ppc64el is for IBM machines and not suited for the Macintosh ppc64 
architecture so I won't attempt installing it.

On Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 2:09:43 AM UTC+3 Tom Keffer wrote:

> I agree. If ephem is giving you problems, install piecemeal using pip 
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/pip-troubleshooting#install-piecemeal> 
> and leave ephem out.
>
> -tk
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM vince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A unreleased debian on a niche architecture on really ancient hardware ?  
>> Wow good luck there.
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/trixie/ppc64el/python3-ephem/download seems 
>> to want latest python, unless your architecture isn't compatible with 
>> 'ppc64el' in which case you'd need to try a pip installation of the missing 
>> module and perhaps force a dpkg (not apt) installation of weewx and any 
>> corequisites to get current.
>>
>> You're going to want to get current regardless eventually.  I still have 
>> to think a pip installation of weewx should work
>>
>> On Monday, September 2, 2024 at 11:59:30 AM UTC-7 Ξ wrote:
>>
>>> Hello *Rich*,
>>>
>>> Apologies for not using the search, that was indeed very helpful and did 
>>> the job. Much obliged!
>>>
>>> Hi *Vince*,
>>>
>>>
>>> *– Why again aren’t you using v5?  *
>>> I'm actually running Debian Trixie ppc64 on and old old Power Mac :)
>>> So whenever I try to install v5 it asks for Python3-ephem, however the 
>>> latest ppc64 package is python3-ephem_3.7.6 and it requires Python <3.6 
>>> whereas my version is 3.12.
>>>
>>> Right now I'm successfully (for the most part) running v4.10 after 
>>> removing six.py from the weewx directory. 
>>> The only problem is exactly the same as described here by Greg 
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/F1oLMD8_3MQ/m/iWvgxhFGAgAJ> 
>>> but it's OK, without the plots/reports data is being collected and sent 
>>> online. Unlike Greg I haven't been able to downgrade pillow yet, and the 
>>> link to genplot.py from that thread provided by Tom is now 404, but 
>>> it's not a big issue.
>>>
>>> Case closed I guess and thanks for all the help!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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