Thanks again Gary, for your response. Very helpful as always. Upgrade looks a bit scary, but will give it a go.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 14:01, gjr80 <gjroder...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, 5 October 2018 20:20:14 UTC+10, David Hindley wrote: >> >> Thanks, Gary. >> >> I think my problems with pysftp are something to do with using Wheezy on >> a RPi and ver 2.7 of Python. That seems to have an old version of pip, so I >> managed to update that to pip ver 18.0, but then pip shows several nasty >> looking errors when I try to install pysftp. The syslog is below, but I >> suspect I am going to have to upgrade my Pi to raspbian stretch - any tips >> on making that process quick, allowing for a weewx install would be >> appreciated. >> >> > Am no great expert but the SSL warnings are exactly that, warnings. You do > have the libffi error: > > Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path. >> > > You could try to installing libffi-dev as I suggested, though maybe a bit > mute if upgrading to Stretch. > > Regarding upgrading to Stretch. Its fairly straightforward, backing up > your WeeWX config and data should make re-installing WeeWX fairly painless. > The basic steps are: > > 1. stop WeeWX > 2. backup you WeeWX data, assuming you are using SQLite you just need > to backup any .sdb files in /var/lib/weewx > 3. backup up you WeeWX confg and skins, ie everything in /etc/weewx > 4. backup your bin/user directory, /usr/share/weewx/user in your case > 5. download your preferred raspbian stretch image, burn it to a SD > card and boot your RPi from the new image > 6. setup RPi as required > 7. install WeeWX and get a minimal install running with the simulator > 8. stop WeeWX and copy your old database over the new one, restart > WeeWX > 9. start adding in any extensions/customisations etc, refer back to > your backup /etc/weewx/weewx.conf and skin.conf files for any config > details/customisations > > Some folks might prefer to take a shorter approach, ie just copy all the > WeeWX directories from the old to the new, that may work but it can also > tangle you in knots if it goes awry. > > Gary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/lC5wFBhg2g8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
