Thank you Vince and Gary for your replies. Vince: I am using the quickstart guide you reference, even thought it references the Buster distro rather than the Bullseye distro. I found that using Buster, I continuously ended up with 'configobj' problems. Using Bullseye, that is no longer an issue. Not sure why that is the case. Gary: My preference for the setup.py install is that is puts everything in one place. Being sort of new, this is much easier for me to track something down. The instructions I am following are as follows: (after installing all of the prerequisites) 3. Install WeeWX
After installing the prerequisites, you can install WeeWX itself. 1. Expand the source archive: tar xvfz weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz 2. Change directory into the expanded archive: cd weewx-X.Y.Z 3. To specify an install location different from the default /home/weewx, modify the parameter home in the setup.cfg file. Mac users will want to change it to /Users/Shared/weewx. 4. Then build and install. Python 2 users: substitute python2 for python3. python3 ./setup.py build 5. sudo python3 ./setup.py install 4. Run Run the main program directly: cd /home/weewx sudo ./bin/weewxd ------ It's a bit confusing that there is no mention of *where* to expand the source archive. It does say that the default location is in /home/weewx, but clearly running tar as mentioned is going to create a subdirectory of weewx-X.Y.Z. Might it be prudent to move the contents of the expanded archive into /home/weewx, before the build and install operations? Thank you, once again. Michael On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 9:59:03 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote: > Actually, exactly how did you install WeeWX? I'm seeing /home/weewx which > is suggestive of a setup.py install but I'm also seeing that weewxd is in > /home/weewx/weewx-4.8.0/bin - that's non-standard and I'm not surprised > WeeWX is having problems. > > For a first time user I would suggest either a package install > <http://weewx.com/docs/debian.htm> or following the setup.py install > <http://weewx.com/docs/setup.htm> to the letter. Also, if you were > downloading and unpacking the .tar.gz to /home/weewx it might be an idea > to use a different location (like /var/tmp), that way you won't get > tangled up between WeeWX being installed in /home/weewx and the untarred > files being in /home/weewx/weewx-4.8.0 - I guarantee you will eventually > edit/run the wrong file. > > Gary > -- 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/53f556d3-e32d-4a93-afe4-aaa53a7925c3n%40googlegroups.com.
