How To Install Gis Weather 0.7.3 On Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS ,OpenSUSE

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Gis Weather is a customizable widget that displays the weather forecast of our chosen places, on the desktop. It shows temperature, wind, humidity for today and the next few days.

The latest version available is Gis Weather 0.7.3, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes:

• Add: new preset, icons Sketchy
• Add: Italian l10n
• fix indicator
• Fix presets
• Changed city_id_dialog
• Updated German translation
• Merge pull request #7 from JHooverman/master
• Update l10n, Add: air background
• Fix: gismeteo mist icon
• Add: change weather description style
• Fix: instances
• Fix: widget view then error connect

These are three of the four presets available:

In this article I will show you how to install Gis Weather 0.7.3 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS,  LXLE, Peppermint, Linux Lite, Deepin, Debian, Kwheezy, Crunchbang, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva systems.

For Debian, Ubuntu and derivative systems, Gis Weather 0.7.3 is available as a DEB package, so installing it is easy. All you have to do is download the package and install it, via command-line. Like this:

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/gis-weather/files/gis-weather/0.7.3/gis-weather_0.7.3_all.deb
$ sudo gdebi gis-weather_0.7.3_all.deb

Optional, to remove gis-weather do:

$ sudo apt-get remove gis-weather

For rpm based systems, Gis Weather 0.7.3 is available as a tar.gz archive, so we have to download it from sourceforce, extract it, cd into the extracted folder and run the .py file:

How to install Gis Weather 0.7.3 on Fedora and CentOS systems:

$ sudo yum install python3
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/gis-weather/files/gis-weather/0.7.3/gis-weather-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf gis-weather-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ cd gis-weather-0.7.3
$ python3 gis-weather.py

Optional, to remove gis-weather-0.7.3, do:

$ rm -r gis-weather-0.7.3

How to install Gis Weather 0.7.3 on OpenSUSE systems:

$ sudo zypper install python3
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/gis-weather/files/gis-weather/0.7.3/gis-weather-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf gis-weather-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ cd gis-weather-0.7.3
$ python3 gis-weather.py

Optional, to remove gis-weather-0.7.3, do:

$ rm -r gis-weather-0.7.3

How to install Gis Weather 0.7.3 on Mageia and OpenMandriva systems:

$ sudo urmpi python3
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/gis-weather/files/gis-weather/0.7.3/gis-weather-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf gis-weather-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ cd gis-weather-0.7.3
$ python3 gis-weather.py

Optional, to remove gis-weather-0.7.3, do:

$ rm -r gis-weather-0.7.3