Glen, I downloaded it from here http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/weather/releases/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz
When I run your suggested command I get this odroid@odroid:~$ file /home/odroid/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz /home/odroid/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators odroid@odroid:~$ Dave On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:35 PM, Glenn McKechnie <glenn.mckech...@gmail.com > wrote: > Dave, > > What happens when you run the following command > > file /home/odroid/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz > > You should get some meaningful outoput eg: - > > file weewx-20171111-193906.tar.gz > weewx-20171111-193906.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sat > Nov 11 08:39:06 2017, max compression, from Unix > > I suspect it's not actually a *.tgz file. Perhaps it's an html error page > from where you downloaded it? > > If it is a text file pretending to be tgz then 'file' will expose it. eg:- > > file lshw.tgz # which is actually a html page renamed as .tgz > lshw.tgz: XML 1.0 document, ASCII text, with very long lines > > > > > > > > Cheers > Glenn > > rorpi - read only raspberry pi & various weewx addons > https://github.com/glennmckechnie > > On 21 February 2018 at 12:39, Dave Webb KB1PVH <kb1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Trying to install Cumulus real-time and not having any luck. I'm using Weewx >> 3.4.0 and installed with setup.py. weewx-crt-0.18.tgz is in >> /home/odriod >> >> >> odroid@odroid:~$ sudo /home/weewx/bin/wee_extension --install >> /home/odroid/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz >> [sudo] password for odroid: >> Request to install '/home/odroid/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz' >> Extracting from tar archive /home/odroid/weewx-crt-0.18.tgz >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_extension", line 83, in <module> >> main() >> File "/home/weewx/bin/wee_extension", line 75, in main >> ext.install_extension(options.install) >> File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/extension.py", line 110, in >> install_extension >> self.tmpdir, self.logger) >> File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 1161, in extract_tar >> tar_archive = tarfile.open(filename, mode='r') >> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1665, in open >> raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully") >> tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully >> odroid@odroid:~$ >> >> >> Even if I use the GUI and try to right click to manually extract it, it >> comes up with an error saying "an error occurred while loading the >> archive UTF-8 " >> >> >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
