I sympathize, but wheezy has not been supported by the RPi foundation in 2-1/2 years. Everything dies eventually.
You can try upgrading the operating system *in situ:* *sudo apt dist-upgrade* This hasn't always worked for me, but it's worth a try. -tk On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 4:53 PM Joe <my.droid.phone.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Really sucks I gotta completely re-image and re-set my whole PI board for > this. I get used to set-forget . I downloaded the files it needs. > Database. conf files etc as the online site says. > > I was hoping this program would be more backward compatible with the RPI > OS. > > 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/2dfc7a65-53b1-47e4-88a4-290c54b7d6a3n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2dfc7a65-53b1-47e4-88a4-290c54b7d6a3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAPq0zEDQHHx8zRwKxERiqAJ4EjK6ZPaT2wtx7q1LTs2eJCcvAQ%40mail.gmail.com.
