Open it with vim or another plain text editor and see what it says, looks like it is a html page. I'm curious as to what it says ;-) You won't have to rename it for vim, don't know about others.
The link worked for me so you're in luck. Attached is a working version. Cheers Glenn rorpi - read only raspberry pi & various weewx addons https://github.com/glennmckechnie On 21 February 2018 at 14:54, Dave Webb KB1PVH <kb1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
weewx-crt-0.18.tgz
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