It was not a joke. I was following the instructions in the driver documentation about how to install it. Most documentation always used sudo, this did not, so rather than experiment and screw up my entire installation I executed it verbatim. So simply a matter of not seeing the forest for the trees.
On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 11:10:21 AM UTC+12 p q wrote: > Sorry for being short. I thought the link would explain it. I do hope that > was a joke. > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:46 PM vince <vince...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Please tell me you're joking there. Please. >> >> (if not, I'd strongly suggest you do some of the nice free self-paced >> Linux courses and tutorials available online. The edx.org Linux >> fundamentals course used to be pretty good). >> >> On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 3:28:53 PM UTC-7 Craig Young wrote: >> >>> I tried "gahh.sudo" and got command not found, then tried "gahh.sudo >>> wee_extension --install etc" and also got command not found. Maybe I am >>> doing this wrong? >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 10:25:17 AM UTC+12 p q wrote: >>> >>>> gahh. sudo >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:24 PM p q <peterq...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> sudu <https://home.ubalt.edu/abento/linux/terminal/sudonotfedora.html> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:21 PM Craig Young <craig.y...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I am installing the TWI.py driver and have run into an error: >>>>>> >>>>>> pi@CLOWeatherStation:~ $ wee_extension --install weewx-twi.zip >>>>>> Request to install 'weewx-twi.zip' >>>>>> Extracting from zip archive weewx-twi.zip >>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>>>> File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_extension", line 92, in <module> >>>>>> main() >>>>>> File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_extension", line 84, in main >>>>>> ext.install_extension(options.install) >>>>>> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/extension.py", line 130, in >>>>>> install_extension >>>>>> self.install_from_dir(extension_dir) >>>>>> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/extension.py", line 183, in >>>>>> install_from_dir >>>>>> shutil.copy(source_path, destination_path) >>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python3.7/shutil.py", line 245, in copy >>>>>> copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks) >>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python3.7/shutil.py", line 121, in copyfile >>>>>> with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: >>>>>> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >>>>>> '/usr/share/weewx/user/twi.py' >>>>>> pi@CLOWeatherStation:~ $ >>>>>> >>>>>> How do I change permissions? >>>>>> >>>>>> Craig >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e7d5f0b0-2ca2-43b9-85c4-9f58821563b5n%40googlegroups.com >>>>>> >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e7d5f0b0-2ca2-43b9-85c4-9f58821563b5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Peter Quinn >>>>> (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Peter Quinn >>>> (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> >>>> >>> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/9e349a60-cc35-4d5a-8758-8171c986deb5n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/9e349a60-cc35-4d5a-8758-8171c986deb5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Peter Quinn > (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> > -- 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/bd09b0d1-630e-47eb-94e1-87af78745dfbn%40googlegroups.com.
