Debian 13 support broken for pip?

[Chris Alemany]

Hi all,

There seems to be a wider issue. It seems the pip libraries are getting lost in the upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 and using weewx 3.1.

TLDR: The "Installation using pip" instructions do not work successfully on a new Debian 13 install. At least in my experience.

1) I've backed up and moved my old weewx-data directory.

2) I uninstalled the python3-pip and -venv apt packages, cleaned them out, and re-installed.

3) Following the standard pip venv steps, weewx appears to install successfully (as seen below)

4) but no weewx-data folder is created.

5) when weewxd is run for the first time, it fails on account of no weewx-data directory and related files.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Chris

(weewx-venv) pi@footiMac:~$ python3 -m pip install weewx

Collecting weewx

  Using cached weewx-5.3.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.9 kB)

Collecting CT3>=3.1 (from weewx)

  Using cached ct3-3.4.0.post5-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.whl.metadata (3.9 kB)

Collecting Pillow>=5.2 (from weewx)

  Using cached pillow-12.1.1-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_27_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (8.8 kB)

Collecting PyMySQL>=1.0 (from weewx)

  Using cached pymysql-1.1.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.3 kB)

Collecting configobj>=5.0 (from weewx)

  Using cached configobj-5.0.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.2 kB)

Collecting ephem>=4.1 (from weewx)

  Using cached ephem-4.2.1-cp313-cp313-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (6.3 kB)

Collecting pyserial>=3.4 (from weewx)

  Using cached pyserial-3.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)

Collecting pyusb>=1.0.2 (from weewx)

  Using cached pyusb-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.5 kB)

Using cached weewx-5.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.4 MB)

Using cached configobj-5.0.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)

Using cached ct3-3.4.0.post5-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.whl (876 kB)

Using cached ephem-4.2.1-cp313-cp313-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (1.8 MB)

Using cached pillow-12.1.1-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_27_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (7.0 MB)

Using cached pymysql-1.1.2-py3-none-any.whl (45 kB)

Using cached pyserial-3.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (90 kB)

Using cached pyusb-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)

Installing collected packages: pyserial, ephem, pyusb, PyMySQL, Pillow, CT3, configobj, weewx

Successfully installed CT3-3.4.0.post5 Pillow-12.1.1 PyMySQL-1.1.2 configobj-5.0.9 ephem-4.2.1 pyserial-3.5 pyusb-1.3.1 weewx-5.3.1

(weewx-venv) pi@footiMac:~$ weewxd

Error parsing config file: Unable to find file 'weewx.conf'. Tried directories ['/home/pi/weewx-data', '/etc/weewx', '/home/weewx']

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/weeutil/startup.py", line 86, in start_app

    config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(config_option, [config_arg])

                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/weecfg/__init__.py", line 147, in read_config

    config_path = find_file(option_path, args, locations=locations, file_name=file_name)

  File "/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/weecfg/__init__.py", line 104, in find_file

    raise OSError(f"Unable to find file '{file_name}'. Tried directories {locations}")

OSError: Unable to find file 'weewx.conf'. Tried directories ['/home/pi/weewx-data', '/etc/weewx', '/home/weewx']

[Chris Alemany]

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