I broke weather applet

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So much for Meteo. I guess its database has shrunk. My city is no longer available. And it is difficult to search for nearby cities.

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I managed without log out/in or reboot: 'killall mate-panel' is enough.

Thank you for instructions!

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Hi, @Torogran and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!

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There are major changes again to the Metar data source at aviationweather.gov. Not only URL changes, but changes to the parameters to the API, some have been dropped or become part of the URL. Data API

The weather stopped working for me this morning, so I have removed my location so it no longer tries to call the API.

I think it will be a long time before the clock applet will show the weather once more if ever.

We can hope for Ubuntu Mate 26.04

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I think this will, again, need some time before it's patched.
I guess quite a while because much more seem to have changed.

As a (temporary) replacement, user @highflux7 suggested this:

It might be well worth it to check it out

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I have some good news:
I tested the My-Weather-indicator applet that @highflux7 proposed and it is awesome.

  1. it works™ :+1:
  2. it integrates beautifully with the MATE panel and respects themes :+1:
    (in other words, it feels 'native')
  3. it is much more advanced and through settings better controllable. :+1:
  4. easy to install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao &&
sudo apt update &&
sudo apt install my-weather-indicator
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Patch is underway, Check this:

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..it worked again!

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So are you saying what fixed the issue in NOV 23 will fix the issue now? Also, will this work with 24.04?

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Yes, it worked ! ( UM 24.04 )

Thank you very much ! :grinning_face:
In my case I also had to add libsoup-3.0-dev to the install list, but that is a minor detail.

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Yes, it works. I also had to install libsoup-3.0-dev. It works on Ubuntu Mate 24.04 and also on Debian 13 with Mate desktop.

Thank you very much.

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Moreover, this also works on Linux Mint 22.2 Mate.

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Worked on 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) 64-bit. However,it took a couple of tries as I did not realize libsoup-3.0-dev needed to be installed first prior to running the install command.

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I had the same problem. I then found that it was said by tkn.

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Thank you so much!

This worked for me on Mint Mate 22.2/Ubuntu 24.04!

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Hi, @nocloo and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!