WeatherBug For Linux Is Live!

After months of work and beta testing on a multitude of Linux distributions, WeatherBug is proud to redefine the way we retrieve weather data on the Linux platform. Initially launched on Linspire’s CNR.com website, WeatherBug for Linux is the aftermath of the success seen with the previous beta application, WeatherBug Tempest.

So what is new? Take a look at the latest YouTube video below for a quick run down.

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Supported distributions include:

• (K)Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04
• Linspire 6.x and Freespire 2.x
• PCLinuxOS and CentOS
• Not fully tested yet but expected to work include Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian and Mandriva.

Where can you download it from?

• Debian, PCLinuxOS, CentOS , etc – Download the appropriate package here.

• Linspire or Freespire – Use your CNR installation utility for a flawless installation.

• (K)Ubuntu or Linux Mint – With your multiverse repository enabled, use either Linspire’s CNR client or the Deb package.

Why WeatherBug?

So why use WeatherBug instead of other data providers anyway? I can name at least two good reasons.

1. The largest proprietary weather network
2. Accuracy with choice

Auto-starting WeatherBug.

At this time, the application is not designed to autostart. So to compensate, I created a little something to help Freespire/Linspire users. This is to be run once and immediately after installing the application in Linspire or Freespire. Download this script, (right-click and save as). Then once downloaded, right-click, properties, permissions and make it executable. After this is done, double click it. After that, you can then safely remove the WeatherBug shortcut from your desktop.

Other KDE users, run this in a terminal:

cp /home/$USER/Computer/Desktop/weatherbug.desktop /home/$USER/.kde/Autostart/weatherbug.desktop

Ubuntu (GNOME users):

Add the word

weatherbug

to your sessions tool by Ctrl-F2 then typing gnome-session-properties .