Maybe related, but it seems to me in your case it is windows (or edge) trying to be helpful, at the end of the day you still have a tar.gz and the z option works fine. Have had too many odd things happen when getting windows involved in anything linux so since my linux machines have internet access I just avoid it and use wget.
Sounds like the this situation <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/axosPhHsLXc/discussion> again. Gary On Saturday, 5 November 2016 16:03:30 UTC+10, Andrew Milner wrote: > > I have always been somewhat intrigued - and this may well be related > somehow - in why, when I do the download from windows the resulting file is > always .tar.tar and not .tar.gz - and I then have to rename it back to > .tar.gz once it is on my debian system > > On Saturday, 5 November 2016 07:49:01 UTC+2, gjr80 wrote: >> >> 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.
