xfce4-weather-plugin for Xubuntu 18.04 stopped working
The reason for this is that the API from https://apt.met.no has changed the version number that the plugin is calling.
Old code calling: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecastlts/1.3
The page gives this error message:
404 Not Found
Validation error
The specified version number is end-of-lifed for this product
API expecting: https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0
I have filed a bug report for this to get new API added to the code here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-weather-plugin/+bug/1895246
There is a bug filed at the Xfce GitLab:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/27
Apparently there has been a fix pushed upstream it is available in git repo xfce4-weather-plugin except there is an issue that the xdt-autogen version required to build this is 4.14.0. The version in Xubuntu 18.04 is version 4.12.0 as the highest. The version in the git is looking for isn't available in the xfce4-dev-tools package for 18.04. However, I was actually able to get a git version to build with version 4.12.0 with some quick modifications to their autogen.sh script. I have the instructions below.
Git repo install:
I found the version that comes with 18.04 actually has a problem with showing when it is evening outside as I was seeing the icon showing a moon when it was only 4 pm. I updated to the version, I believe is version 0.10.1, in the git repo and that corrected it.
Remove Weather plugin from panel and after remove existing plugin
sudo apt remove xfce4-weather-plugin
Now add prereqs:
sudo apt-get build-dep xfce4-weather-plugin
sudo apt install build-essential git
or
sudo apt install intltool libdbus-glib-1-dev libsoup2.4-dev libxfce4ui-1-dev libxfce4util-dev libxfconf-0-dev xfce4-dev-tools xfce4-panel-dev git build-essential
Now get the git version, build and install
git clone https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin.git
cd xfce4-weather-plugin/
If you are running 20.04 or newer the next line is not needed:
sed -i 's/4.14.0/4.12.0/' autogen.sh
Continue with the build:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
Re-add the weather plugin to the panel and it should now work now. =)
Quick screenshots of it:
