Well then. That explains that. Any suggestions on how to save my database data?
On Friday, December 25, 2020 at 1:06:21 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: > Yup - your os is far too ancient for the libraries the weewx dpkg is built > against. That version went end-of-life in May-2018. > > I'd suggest you reimage with the current RaspiOS from > https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems and then you'll be > up to date and supportable. The weewx package works just fine in the > current os. > > On Friday, December 25, 2020 at 2:35:04 AM UTC-8 Joe wrote: > >> That worked. 7.8 >> >> >> PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)" >> NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" >> VERSION_ID="7" >> VERSION="7 (wheezy)" >> ID=raspbian >> ID_LIKE=debian >> ANSI_COLOR="1;31" >> HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"; >> SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"; >> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"; >> root@raspberrypi:/etc# >> >> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 11:44:26 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: >> >>> The current kernel version is 5.4.79 according to the release notes at >>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems >>> >>> My suspicion is that you are running an ancient os version that is too >>> old for the current packaged version of weewx. >>> >>> Again, please run the following commands and provide the results. >>> >>> - cat /etc/debian_version >>> - cat /etc/os-release >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 6:26:16 PM UTC-8 Joe wrote: >>> >>>> Neither of those directories exist. >>>> >>>> Its raspberrypi 3.18.7 >>>> >>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 9:53:49 AM UTC-6 vince wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 4:33:57 AM UTC-8 Joe wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> You mean to say running on the SD-CARD is bad idea? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Not bad, but not great if the card and power aren't quality. But yes >>>>> I misstyped my original reply. >>>>> >>>>> Re: your previous message containing " *d**pkg-deb: error: archive >>>>> '/var/cache/apt/archives/weewx_4.2.0-1_all.deb' contains not understood >>>>> data member control.tar.xz, giving up*", that's an unusual message. >>>>> >>>>> What version of raspi os are you running ? >>>>> Can we see the contents of /etc/os-release and /etc/debian_version >>>>> please ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/49a7b36b-13cb-4114-bb3f-ebfb5c285570n%40googlegroups.com.
