Yes, you did use the Debian package installer. You should be able to just do
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install weewx If you're concerned about breaking things, make a backup of your database file /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb. It's the only thing that's irreplaceable. But, you've been doing that anyway, right? :-) -tk On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:06 PM r...@eau.net <r...@eau.net> wrote: > > I am very cautious and don't want to goof things up (well, too much) so > today I make sure the RaspPi4 is running the latest Buster, and updated all > the Python 3 files and prerequisites that are listed. > > In the Update Guide, there is a red-highlighted admonition that one must > use the same update method that was used for initial installation. > > I do not recall how I did it, so I'm reading to see that one comment Tom > made to another user implied that if one looked in /etc/weewx for the > config file it must have been installed via the DEB package and to use > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install weewx > > to update. > > I did look in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list and it is there. > > So can I assume then that I used the DEB process to install initially, and I > can relatively comfortably proceed with using > the sudo commands above are the right ones to do my update? > > > Thanks for the hand holding. Dale > > -- > 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/d3a598a5-73bd-4ad1-a046-1a27d35ec4e8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d3a598a5-73bd-4ad1-a046-1a27d35ec4e8%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/CAPq0zED-UZUnawAeGbL2KrWx3yVLB-biakkcWJQs-mHH3HcjbQ%40mail.gmail.com.
