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! > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
