Installation Problem on Mint 19 (32 bit) - python-imaging not available

[James Greiner]

Hello,

New user (and linux newbie)... Attempted to install weewx this evening per the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint instructions, and am getting a dependency error during install:

Running on Linux Mint 19 32 bit...

jim@weather:~$ sudo apt-get install weewx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 weewx : Depends: python-imaging (>= 1.1.6) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Tried installing python-imaging separately, and appears to not be available:

jim@weather:~$ sudo apt-get install python-imaging
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package python-imaging is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  python-pil

E: Package 'python-imaging' has no installation candidate

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Jim

[Glenn McKechnie]

Hi James,

Try installing python-pil and see if that resolves the problem.
(It should, as apt is suggesting it, and weewx is configured to use it)

[...]

> However the following packages replace it:

> python-pil*

sudo apt-get install python-pil

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Cheers
Glenn

rorpi - read only raspberry pi & various weewx addons
https://github.com/glennmckechnie

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

[James Greiner]

Thanks Glenn... I'll try that in a bit and see if it allows the install to continue.

Jim

[James Greiner]

Installed all python-pil packages... did a re-boot... still getting the "weewx : Depends: python-imaging (>= 1.1.6) but it is not installable" error same spot and installation stops. :(

Jim

[vince]

On Monday, August 6, 2018 at 5:09:22 PM UTC-7, James Greiner wrote:

Installed all python-pil packages... did a re-boot... still getting the "weewx : Depends: python-imaging (>= 1.1.6) but it is not installable" error same spot and installation stops. :(

This will be in 3.8.1 when it's released eventually.

The .deb file is in http://www.weewx.com/downloads/development_versions/ if you wanted to grab it from there then install the .deb from a local file

 

[James Greiner]

Thanks Vince... Out of time tonight, but will give that a try tomorrow and post results.

Jim

[James Greiner]

Couldn't wait so downloaded 3.81... Success, and have my station back on line!,,, Need to update my longitude though... should be West and comes up as East

http://jimgreiner.is-a-geek.net/weewx/

Thanks again for both of your help!

Jim

[ian kitchen]

Hello all

I'm in a similar situation - ( Mint 19 64-bit ) and I have done the various things mentioned in this thread but still get the same error. Even after running the development deb I get: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: python-imaging(>=1.1.6)

Any suggestions?

Regards

IK

[James Greiner]

Ian.... Did you install the python "pils" packages first?... The pils package replaced python-imaging which had been deprecated... After installing pils, the development package installed without error on my 32 bit version Mint 19

Jim

[ian kitchen]

Hi Jim - yes I installed the pils first but still ended up with same error.

Ian

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[James Greiner]

I will be trying the 64 bit version next weekend & let you know (decided the machine I have 32 bit on now not fast enough)...

I did check, and have both python-pils and python3-pils installed, along with python-pils-dbg, -doc,  .imagetk, .imagetk-dbg and python3 versions of same packages... if you don't have both python & python3 versions installed you might try adding the ones you are missing... not sure which "flavor" weewx prefers...

If I discover something next weekend when I rebuild Mint x64 will post an update.... Good luck!

Jim

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[Pat]

I installed Linux Mint 19 64 bit in a virtual machine real quick to test this out. Here's what I did to get it to install and work:

The same instructions below will work on Ubuntu 18.04

From the install instructions:

wget -qO - http://weewx.com/keys.html | sudo apt-key add -
wget -qO - http://weewx.com/apt/weewx.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.list

Having these keys loaded will allow you to do an apt upgrade in the future when necessary. 

Then install the Python PIL package, download the development version of weewx, and install the development version of weewx. 

sudo apt update

sudo apt install python-pil

wget http://weewx.com/downloads/development_versions/weewx_3.8.1-1_all.deb

sudo apt install ./weewx_3.8.1-1_all.deb

Once you complete the install and entering in your station data, run this command to make sure it's working:

sudo systemctl status weewx

You should see something similar to the below. They key thing to look at is "Active: active (running)"

● weewx.service - LSB: weewx weather system
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/weewx; generated)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-08-11 15:34:42 EDT; 2min 15s ago

Hope this helps!

On Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 2:27:53 PM UTC-4, ian kitchen wrote:

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[ian kitchen]

Thanks for all replies.  I now have it running. Error was my own fault - I  downloaded the development version but by not paying attention to the version number, tried to install the original again. Apologies to all. The development version works fine as suggested. Now some configuration questions - I'd better start another thread......

Regards

IK

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