Mate-weather applet stopped working

Question

My mate-weather applet suddenly stopped working. Have tried other locations, none work. Has anyone else encountered this and do you know of a fix?

Seen on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, MATE 1.18 and on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, MATE 1.22.

Answer 1

Update 2020-06-24: problem is solved on server-side. No additional manual actions required.

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This is aviationweather.gov server side issue, which now is in the works.

The Ubuntu MATE community also knows about the issue, the pull request is prepared.

Please wait for resolution.

Note: all current Ubuntu MATE versions are affected. And not only MATE, as the aviationweather.gov is used by some other Ubuntu projects.

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For those who do not want to wait there are two possible solutions.

• Patch the MATE Weather library on binary level with single command below:

  • 64 bit

    sudo sed -i 's|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httpparam|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver1_3/httpparam\x0\x0\x0\x0\x0|' $(readlink -f /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmateweather.so.1)

  • 32 bit

    sudo sed -i 's|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httpparam|https://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver1_3/httpparam\x0\x0\x0\x0\x0|' $(readlink -f /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmateweather.so.1)

  Note: to revert the patch one can reinstall the corresponding package with sudo apt-get install --reinstall libmateweather1.

• Use My Weather Indicator applet from Atareo PPA by one of the following methods:

  • by adding PPA

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator
    

  • by downloading package manually:

    cd ~/Downloads
    wget https://launchpad.net/~atareao/+archive/ubuntu/atareao/+files/my-weather-indicator_0.9.4-0extras19.10.09_all.deb
    sudo apt-get install ./my-weather-indicator_0.9.4-0extras19.10.09_all.deb
    

  and then find the application in the Applications → Accessories → My-Weather-Indicator and set settings for it.
  Optionally you can add it to autostart by placing the corresponding desktop-file in the correct directory:

  mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
  cat << EOF > ~/.config/autostart/my-weather-indicator.desktop
  [Desktop Entry]
  Type=Application
  Exec=/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/bin/my-weather-indicator
  Hidden=false
  X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true
  Name=My Weather Indicator
  EOF