xfce weather applet - No Data [SOLVED]

msulli1355 · Last edited by msulli1355 on Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:52 am; edited 1 time in total

I'm running XFCE. For the pastcouple of days my weather applet has been reporting No Data instead of the temperature outside. I try to update once a week on Sunday. I tried remerging xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin this morning. Is there something more I should be doing to fix this problem?

kurly · Apprentice Joined: 02 Apr 2012 Posts: 260

Smells like Gentoo bug #524850 and upstream bug #10916 -- I ran into the same issue. Very easy to workaround locally until the very busy Gentoo volunteer staff gets around to fixing it in-tree.

msulli1355 · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:33 pm Post subject:

I guess I don't understand. I downloaded the tarballs for xfce4-weather-plugin-1ff71669644a0b824a8a5ba9b40771ee4fb8a76b and xfce4-weather-plugin-7df303bc5fa649299e18efeb5d4b801614030488.tar.bz2. I untarred xfce4-weather-plugin-1ff71669644a0b824a8a5ba9b40771ee4fb8a76b, I ran autogen.sh, then configure, make, and make install. I logged out of xfce and logged back in, but it still doesn't work. I'm not good at manually building packages. That's why I prefer to usee emerge. What did the gentoo bug mean when it said 'epatch_user enabled'? Do I need to do a manual build of 7df303bc5fa649299e18efeb5d4b801614030488.tar.bz2 as well?

kurisu · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:19 pm Post subject:

You don't have to build it on your own. Simply put the patches from git into /etc/portage/patches/xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin (create that folder) and reemerge the plugin. They will be automatically applied then. This is what epatch_user is all about.

msulli1355 · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:02 pm Post subject:

I don't know how to download from git. The tarballs I got were the full source code. They are each about 2.8MB...

msulli1355 · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:19 pm Post subject:

How do I get the patch?

kurisu · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 10:01 pm Post subject:

Open the two links from comment #10 in the upstream bug. Right-click on patch in line commit and save. Move both patches to /etc/portage/patches/xfce-extra/xfce4-weather-plugin. You can rename them, but keep the file extention untouched. Reemerge.

msulli1355 · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:52 am Post subject:

Thank you. It worked!

e3k · Guru Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 515 Location: Quantum Flux

thank you that works.
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saibot · n00b Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 44 Location: nerd town

An updated version is now also in Portage. It works again!