[xubuntu-users] weather plugin no longer works?

[Victor Forberger]

On 3/19/25 06:30, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Since some days now, the xfce weather plugin can be reset to another 
> location, but does not give any weather info ....
> 
> (found nothing on google xfce4-weather-plugin )
> 
> Marc


Thanks Marc.

I presume you are running 24.04. I too am running xubuntu 24.04 and am 
seeing the same error.

I dug into bug reports and discovered that the weather service that 
provides the info no longer works with the weather plugin version 
0.11.2. An upgrade to 0.11.3 (the current version) is needed.

A simple download and compile of 0.11.3 is not possible because of 
missing dependencies (I did a quick try).

Checking the release notes shows that 24.10 also has this problem 
(0.11.2 included there).

Some solutions are at https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=78790#p78790

The MX23 package solution worked for me.

- download
$ sudo apt install ./xfce4-weather-plugin_0.11.3-0.1~mx23+1_amd64
- remove and then reinstall panel plugin
- set location and other settings in the plugin

-Victor
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