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simeon9997

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Registered: 2025-01-16

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Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

2 days ago the xfce4-weather-plugin was working correctly and last night I opened it and it said "no data". I tried updating everything but the plugin only goes as far as version 0.11. 0-1 on my system, despite this it has always worked fine. I tried finding a . deb of the most recent versions but they won't install due to lack of dependencies, which seems logical to me since newer versions of the plugin can only be installed if I convert my system to Debian Testing and I don't want to do that. As additional information, I have 2 users and the plugin doesn't work on either of them, neither does changing the location. Can anyone help me solve this?

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 672

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

It's a reported bug. Waiting for an update.

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/20 … 38447.html

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simeon9997

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Registered: 2025-01-16

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Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

It's a reported bug. Waiting for an update.

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/20 … 38447.html

I understand that, according to what I read, versions of the plugin prior to 0.1.3 no longer work. Could someone help me install the new version of the plugin on Debian 12 without switching to Debian Testing?

k3dAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 107

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

It's a reported bug. Waiting for an update.

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/20 … 38447.html

I understand that, according to what I read, versions of the plugin prior to 0.1.3 no longer work. Could someone help me install the new version of the plugin on Debian 12 without switching to Debian Testing?

not tried in Debian, but in Xubuntu 24.04 work this, so you can try it on Debian maybe change apt => apt-get ? and/or different source dir version...

eriefisher

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Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 672

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

I'll leave the decision to self build up to the individual. Myself, I trust that the plugin will be repaired/updated soon enough.

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k3dAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 107

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

I'll leave the decision to self build up to the individual. Myself, I trust that the plugin will be repaired/updated soon enough.

of course, this is primary choice ;-) here him can look at status of bug #1100545 in Debian...

burgess_m

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Registered: 2025-03-10

Posts: 3

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

The MX Linux team have built a .deb package for 0.11.3 which is available to download **at your own risk** at https://mxrepo.com/MX23packages.html (scroll down to xfce4-weather-plugin).

simeon9997

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Registered: 2025-01-16

Posts: 7

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

The MX Linux team have built a .deb package for 0.11.3 which is available to download **at your own risk** at https://mxrepo.com/MX23packages.html (scroll down to xfce4-weather-plugin).

Thank you very much, since Debian 12 stable it has worked for me, problem solved! Now a question, theoretically this package should not be able to install on my system, because it requires dependencies that are only available in Debian Testing, I know this because I had already found a . deb of this plugin in version 0.1.2 and it gave me a dependency error, and this package is an even more updated version! 0.1.3.. for what I need it is great but how is it possible that it does not give me dependency errors?

k3dAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 107

Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

[...] Debian 12 stable it has worked for me [...] theoretically this package should not be able to install on my system, because it requires dependencies that are only available in Debian Testing, I know this because I had already found a . deb of this plugin in version 0.1.2 and it gave me a dependency error [...]

source code not depend on higher version, but 0.1.2 package you try be sure compiled in system with higher depended dev packages installed, and 0.1.3 from MX repo is compiled on system with dev packages version same/similar as you have :-)

djh

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Registered: 2019-07-04

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Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

Using the MX Linux package worked for me on Mint

Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

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Re: Weather plugin "No data" (debian 12)

Our extraordinary packager Stevo backports specific items from Sid (or elsewhere) when necessary to solve problems like this.

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