Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.1

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

gnome-weather-41.0

Introduction to GNOME Weather

GNOME Weather is a small application that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world, and to access updated forecasts provided by various internet services.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Weather Dependencies

Required

Gjs-1.70.1, libgweather-40.0, and libhandy-1.4.0

Optional

appstream-glib

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-weather

Installation of GNOME Weather

First, fix building with newer versions of meson: 

sed -i '/merge_file/{n;d}' data/meson.build

Install GNOME Weather by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

Contents

Installed Programs: gnome-weather
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/org.gnome.Weather

Short Descriptions

gnome-weather

is a small application that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions anywhere in the world

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