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simeon9997

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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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Registered: 2008-10-25

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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

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simeon9997

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

Using the MX Linux package worked for me on Mint

Jerry3904

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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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pipounix

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Registered: 2025-04-04

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

I found the solution. I downloaded xfce4-weather-plugin  the Debian testing package, unzipped it, and replaced libweather.so.

tomassenabre

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

You can now update from backsport:

sudo apt-get -t bookworm-backports install xfce4-weather-plugin

flobee

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

You can now update from backsport:

sudo apt-get -t bookworm-backports install xfce4-weather-plugin

Thx :-)

cjsmall

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Registered: 2012-12-02

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

Xubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

The solution is not working for me:

# sudo apt-get -t bookworm-backports install xfce4-weather-plugin"
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'bookworm-backports' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

I find it unbelievable that after all this time an updated package has not been placed in the official package repository.  Like another poster, I've been patiently waiting for this to happen.  What's going on?

eriefisher

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

I believe this plugin has been updated a few times since this thread started. For me it was fixed in a couple days. What version are you running? It's possible that *buntu hasn't updated the package yet but it is available upstream.

 apt policy xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4-weather-plugin:
  Installed: 0.11.3-1
  Candidate: 0.11.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.11.3-1 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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cjsmall

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

Well, I have a fully updated repository for Xubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, and it is only showing version 0.11.2-1build2 in synaptic and:

19-> apt policy xfce4-weather-plugin                                         
xfce4-weather-plugin:
  Installed: 0.11.2-1build2
  Candidate: 0.11.2-1build2
  Version table:
*** 0.11.2-1build2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It seems like a LTS should be getting these sorts of updates.

Anyway, I'd be happy to force an update from another source, but the suggestion above did not work.  Other suggestions appreciated.  Is there a specific repository that can be added?

eriefisher

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

Well you have my source posted above. The sid repo. This should not be too much of an issue for *buntu as I believe they build from sid or at least that used to be the way. Worth a shot as the plugin works fine for me. I would send a message to the Xfce4 *buntu packagers to give them a push.

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deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

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