[kwlug-disc] Weather Forecast in Ubuntu variants

[Raymond Chen]

Off topic a bit, this is my favourite shell alias for weather forcast: curl
wttr.in/waterloo

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> A while back, I posted to this list on why I switched from Kubuntu 16.04
> to Xubuntu 16.04, partially because the former did not have a working
> weather forecast widget, and the latter having one.
>
> Now, xfce4-weather-plugin has stopped working.
>
> This is because the provider has changed the API.
>
> And for the new API to work, you require a newer version of the package.
>
> The instructions below are for Xubuntu, but if you had weather stop
> updating since May 9th or so), whether on KDE, Unity or Gnome, then you can
> do something similar.
>
> This is what I did:
>
> # Purge the existing weather application
> sudo aptitude purge xfce4-weather-plugin
>
> # Find the process ID of the running app
> ps -ef | grep weath
>
> # Kill it
> kill 2249
>
> # Find the newer application version
> Visit http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/xfce4-weather-plugin in your
> browser, and scroll down to your architecture (most likely amd64), and
> click on the download link for a list of mirrors
>
> # Download the .deb of the newer version.
> wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xfce4-
> weather-plugin/xfce4-weather-plugin_0.8.9-1_amd64.deb
>
> # Install the .deb using gdebi
> sudo gdebi xfce4-weather-plugin_0.8.9-1_amd64.deb
>
> Only drawback is that you will not get updates for this package, since it
> is directly installed using gdebi (not from repos), but now I have working
> weather.
>
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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