Xfce4-weather-pluging (No Data)

[magestic]

My XFCE Weather plugin stopped updating, says no data.....

I have version 0.10.1-1

Xsession_errors shows 404 returned from the API

Any fix ?

[Bujhm666]

I have the same problem. It's bad that you can't choose a weather provider.

[Sevin]

https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x ... /issues/27

This problem reappearing is possibly linked to the source disabling the old API on 1 March:
https://api.met.no/blog/2021-02-04-extremeswwc:

As mentioned previously, the old versions of Locationforecast (1.9), Nowcast (0.9) and Weathericon (1.1) will terminate on March 1st, 2021. Incredibly, almost 70 % of the current API traffic is still using version 1.9, This means a lot of sites and apps will stop working shortly. We recommend everyone not yet upgraded to start working on this ASAP. Please see our docs for more information:
https://docs.api.met.no/doc/


I have no idea how to fix the problem

[secureIT]

Hello friends,

i am on LM 20.1 Xfce and i fixed it in this unusual way :

i downloaded libweather.so contained in this .deb from mx-linux repo

gdebi made the rest

after sys-restart it runs flawlessly

http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/ ... _amd64.deb

[Pjotr]

Try this installer package, straight from the Ubuntu repo's (which is always the best option):
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... _amd64.deb

Simply double-click the downloaded package in order to install it, just like you would do with a Windows installer. Should give you version 0.11.0-1, which is probably the latest and greatest.

Stuff like this happens from time to time to weather apps, usually because of API changes. For the future, bookmark this page:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... er-plugin/

[secureIT]

Hi Pjotr,

i tried the ubuntu-file before - but gdebi said :
Error: dependency cannot be fulfilled : libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0(>=2.22.0)

Thats the reason, why i took the Version from MX.

The MX-Version doesnt show any errors.

[Pjotr]

Hi Pjotr,

i tried the ubuntu-file before - but gdebi said :
Error: dependency cannot be fulfilled : libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0(>=2.22.0)

You're right.... How about using the libweather.so from the Ubuntu package? Is that possible?

[ajgreeny]

Try this installer package, straight from the Ubuntu repo's (which is always the best option):
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... _amd64.deb

Simply double-click the downloaded package in order to install it, just like you would do with a Windows installer. Should give you version 0.11.0-1, which is probably the latest and greatest.

Stuff like this happens from time to time to weather apps, usually because of API changes. For the future, bookmark this page:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... er-plugin/

Unfortunately the package direct from Ubuntu still is not working with an unsatisfied dependency;

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The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 xfce4-weather-plugin : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not installable

Luckily the mx version does work at the moment without that dependency problem.

The mx version is still using the Norwegian weather service according to the applets window. There is no way that I know of to figure out that I know of which service the Ubuntu version is using; I'm not even sure if that is the API problem spoken of above!

Weather and astronomical data from
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute

[ajgreeny]

I have just restored the package from the ubuntu repos but replaced the libweather.so file with the version from the .deb package in the PPA for xfce-4.16 at https://launchpad.net/~bluesabre/+archi ... /+packages.
That is still working at the moment!

[db9]

Hello friends,

i am on LM 20.1 Xfce and i fixed it in this unusual way :

i downloaded libweather.so contained in this .deb from mx-linux repo

gdebi made the rest

after sys-restart it runs flawlessly

http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/ ... _amd64.deb

Thank you so much for this!!

[magestic]

tried the MX deb file and it worked, thank you...

[ajgreeny]

Presumably MX-Linux and xfce-4.16 have both updated the API in the applet packages, or at least in the libweather.so file they contain

Great to see solutions, even if by a roundabout route!

[SantaFe]

Hello friends,

i am on LM 20.1 Xfce and i fixed it in this unusual way :

i downloaded libweather.so contained in this .deb from mx-linux repo

gdebi made the rest

after sys-restart it runs flawlessly

http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/ ... _amd64.deb

I try clicking on that link and it never loads. I did find a link in this post: https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x ... note_26949 that let me download the MX 17 xfce4-weather-plugin DEB package and now I gots weather.

[fooster]

Any solutions for Mint 19.2? None of these DEBs work because of unsatisfied dependencies in 19.2.

[ajgreeny]

Try just copying the libweather.so file from one of those debs into the correct place as mentioned above, ie, first

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rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libweather.so

then copy the extracted file in its place

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sudo cp path/to/extracted/libweather.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/

[modele62]

Hello friends,

i am on LM 20.1 Xfce and i fixed it in this unusual way :

i downloaded libweather.so contained in this .deb from mx-linux repo

gdebi made the rest

after sys-restart it runs flawlessly

http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/ ... _amd64.deb

Hi,
Thanks a lot for the tip ! It works perfectly.

[secureIT]

Hello friends,

For them who do not want to use the paket from mx-linux repo ……...

i found now another way to install a working xfce4-weather-plugin in LM 20.1 Xfce

get it from this ppa :

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/xfce4-weather-plugin 

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sudo apt install xfce4-weather-plugin

It also works flawlessly

[johnnyq]

Try just copying the libweather.so file from one of those debs into the correct place as mentioned above, ie, first

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rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libweather.so

then copy the extracted file in its place

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sudo cp path/to/extracted/libweather.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/

If I could upvote you ajgreeny, I would. For now please accept my thanks for this post. It was the simple fix I was looking for. I registered here just to say thanks.

Oh wow, did I miss my beautiful xfce4-weather-plugin! The Weather, Clipboard, and Notes plugins are the reasons I can never go to any other desktop besides XFCE ... these really are perfect tools: simple, powerful, with emergent utility built in.

Thanks again

[ajgreeny]

Many thanks johnnyq; glad to be of help.

And I agree totally that Xfce is the best DE available to us.
It is fast, uses few resources, is immensely configurable and looks terrific, though I'm not too keen on eye-candy, I just want a quick running system!

[PC-TECH]

My XFCE Weather plugin stopped updating, says no data.....

I have version 0.10.1-1

Xsession_errors shows 404 returned from the API

Any fix ?

I had the same issue as well with, however it fixed itself by some magic. (Linux Mint20) It still doesn't work on my Linux Lite machine. (V4.