You can get old versions of weewx .deb packages at http://weewx.com/downloads/released_versions/ if you know what version you used to use. Check your weewx.conf file for the version identifier near the top. You could alternately use the 'setup.py' method to install current weewx on your ancient os, likely using python2 that your old os probably has as its default.
But your preferred path is reflash to a current os and install current weewx and then you're good for a long time. You're talking 15 minutes of work to do that. I would suggest not bothering trying a dist-upgrade from debian-7 to debian-10, as it's going to take forever and likely will not work anyway. Just reimage clean to current RaspiOS which is based on current debian and get caught up once and for all. On Friday, December 25, 2020 at 4:53:02 PM UTC-8 Joe 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/e2b1fd12-26f3-4880-8c2f-54f1a11cc77fn%40googlegroups.com.
