Hmm, interesting, just downloaded weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz and it worked as 
advertised for me on debian 8.6. How/what exactly did you download, is it 
repeatable?

gary@jessie6:/var/tmp/test$ wget http:
//weewx.com/downloads/weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz
--2016-11-05 15:37:08--  http://weewx.com/downloads/weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz
Resolviendo weewx.com (weewx.com)... 97.74.144.107
Conectando con weewx.com (weewx.com)[97.74.144.107]:80... conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK
Longitud: 1098838 (1,0M) [application/x-tar]
Grabando a: “weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz”

weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz  100%[=====================>]   1,05M   121KB/s   en 9,2s

2016-11-05 15:37:18 (116 KB/s) - “weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz” guardado [1098838/
1098838]

gary@jessie6:/var/tmp/test$ tar xvfz weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz
weewx-3.6.1/
weewx-3.6.1/extensions/
weewx-3.6.1/extensions/xstats/
weewx-3.6.1/extensions/xstats/changelog

etcetera, etcetera...

Note to self, must set locale back to en AU.

Gary



On Saturday, 5 November 2016 15:21:46 UTC+10, Graham Buxton wrote:
>
> I am new to weewx, and just installed the Python utility setup.py version 
> using file weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz from the downloads page. I have it running 
> sucessfully (Yay!), but there seems to be a discrepancy in the Users Guide 
> vs the downloaded source archive file compression.
>
> Doc file: http://www.weewx.com/docs/setup.htm says to "Expand the source 
> archive" with:
>
> tar xvfz weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
>
> Note the "z" option in the tar command, but the "weewx-3.6.1.tar.gz" file 
> appears to not have zip compression applied, and an error is generated.
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> Once I removed the "z" option from the tar command, things progressed much 
> better, and weewx now seems to be running fine.   Thanks!
>

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