Weather Information on your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop with Weatherbug

Weatherbug operates one of the largest weather network in the world providing information like local temperatures, wind speed, radar, and forecasts etc .Weatherbug widgets were already available on the Windows and Mac OS platform and now they have released their widgets for the Linux platform also providing weather information through user friendly widgets to people using Linux.



To install weatherbug issue the following command in the terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal )


Note : Weatherbug needs Java Runtime Environment to be installed since it is a java application , also i have found that weatherbug for some reason does not work with open source gcj instead it needs Sun JRE . Inorder to run weatherbug you would have to install Sun JRE which could be done by typing the following command in the terminal window :

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre libswt3.2-gtk-java

To install weatherbug issue the following command in the terminal window :

wget http://wdownload.weatherbug.com/linux/weatherbug-1.0-1.deb

and

sudo dpkg -i weatherbug-1.0-1.deb

After completing the installation you can launch weatherbug from (Applications -> Accessories -> Weatherbug )

Weatherbug Widget

This is how my desktop looks with Weatherbug widget

Article Written by : Ambuj Varshney (blogambuj@gmail.com)
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