On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 9:00:51 AM UTC-4, Graham Buxton wrote: > > I was installing on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. I was using the > Chromium browser to read the Docs, and just clicked the Download file link > in the instructions page. Then copied the tar command from the instruction > page and pasted into the command window. >
so it sounds like chrome-on-ubuntu is trying to be helpful by gunzipping whatever you download, similar to default configurations of edge on windows and safari on macos. the failure modes are: a) browser uncompresses file then z option to tar causes failure b) file downloaded properly but z option not specified so tar fails i'm guessing we will encounter more of (a) than (b) since most modern tar implementations will detect gzip (or bzip) compression, we could probably just remove the z from the tar command in the docs. -- 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.
