xfce4-weather-plugin

[rokytnji]

I don't know about you guys, but my 0.8.3-1 broke recently on both of my installs. No data with a ? is all I get on the taskbar.
I checked to make sure using a different location than my small town by using a major city.
Still no readout.

So I went to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1380128

and saw I was not the only one. I completely removed 0.8.3-1 xfce4-weather-plugin from my install via synaptic.
I downloaded http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/i386/x...n/download
which is the .deb for Utopic Ubuntu which is 0.8.3-2 xfce4-weather-plugin

I had previously removed weather plugin from my xfce taskbar. So after I installed the new downloaded .deb with gdebi (with the warning I ignored about a older version available in package manager). I added the new xfce weather plugin. Now my weather is displayed again
in the taskbar.



I am a on the edge type of linux user and I am not afeared of breaking my installs. Running newer packages are frowned upon
usually as it can cause conflicts on upgrading. Me. I do not care as I am skilled at running Debian Sid/unstable installs on my other
gear. So now that you have been warned. That is how I fixed my broken xfce weather plugin.

[LinuxNoob]

Great job! I been wondering why mine stopped as well. Checked the forums and I guess I missed your post.

Anyways to make a long story short I made a bit of a mess installing gnome plugins and I seem to have a hybrid thing going with desktops. sigh*

Talk about making things complicated. That whole adding sources to the list is something I never have done so I was like wha?

Got it working now though. However I noticed that all the weather apps were not working when I had the problem I wonder if they all get updated info from the same spot. I started to suspect if was my firewall

I guess thats not the case now.

Thanks for the post

[Scott(0)]

@rokytnji
Thanks, great info.

[LinuxNoob]

I have a question for anyone knowledgeable. By adding that repository to the list would it have any adverse affects to upgrades? "        apt-get upgrade"

or are we to remove that repo after the fix?

[Coastie]

My xfce4-weather-plugin has been working off and on. What is the the recommended way for those of us who are "afeared of breaking" something of fixing this?

[Scott(0)]

@Coastie

My xfce4-weather-plugin has been working off and on. What is the the recommended way for those of us who are "afeared of breaking" something of fixing this?

You could just wait for an updated weather package to make its way into the normal LL update channels.

[Valtam]

This has happened before. This package annoys me  :'(

[Coastie]

You could just wait for an updated weather package to make its way into the normal LL update chanels.

Sounds like a plan!  8)

[LinuxNoob]

I did not want to mention this because I'm really not sure if the added repo caused it or all the other crap I installed did it. However after I added that repo and got the plugin to start working, I did an upgrade through the synaptic.

You know that button on the tool bar. Then it went into a mega upgrade took like an hour.

I think it was in some kind of endless cycle so I stopped it after an hour or so. Reinstalled LL

maybe waiting for a proper update is a better idea.

[shengchieh]

I just came from the Linux Mint forum.  One thread is on xfce4-weather.  No guarantee it will work for LL, but LM and LL are based on ubuntu.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=179998

Sheng-Chieh