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Install Weather Indicator & Desktop Widget in Ubuntu 15.04

Last updated: March 27, 2016

Weather widget

Weather App “My Weather Indicator” was finally made into PPA with Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid support.

My-weather-indicator is a small indicator displays your weather formation on Unity panel system tray area. It features:

  • support two locations, select location with OpenStreetMap
  • desktop widget with a few themes.
  • up to 7 day weather forecast, and forecast map.
  • support: Open Weather Map, Yahoo Weather, wunderground.com, World weather online.

weather-indicator-widget

How to install my-weather-indicator:

Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run below commands one by one to install it from the developer’s PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator

Or grab the .deb installer (“my-weather-indicator_0.6.9-0extras14.04.2_all.deb”) from the launchpad page

After installing the software, launch it from the Dash and set your location, widget, weather service, display units, refresh frequency, etc.

weather-settings

Finally click the OK button and enjoy!

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    4 responses to Install Weather Indicator & Desktop Widget in Ubuntu 15.04

    1. Arindam March 26, 2016 at 1:43 am

      Your Launch pad link is broken.

    2. Mav S April 13, 2016 at 4:12 am

      Thanks for the information! Helpful!

    3. Leanne August 30, 2016 at 12:39 pm

      Is there a way to get my-weather-indicator to work in 16.04 Gnome (Flashback Metacity)?

    4. Felix Barrios December 5, 2016 at 5:51 pm

      thank you for share!! this app works fine in ubuntu 16.04, i am new in linux and i loved Ubuntu