Running bbweather in Slack 9.1

sxa · 02-29-2004, 12:05 PM

I am trying to get bbweather to run in Slack 9.1.. I am trying to make since of this help page http://www.netmeister.org/apps/bbweather/index-3.html

I have my 4 Digit Code which is KACT.. but I don't understand that crontab thing and such.. If anyone has set up bbweather before could you tell me how to go about setting this up and get it running..

Thanks in Advance...

slakmagik · 02-29-2004, 02:33 PM

Sounds like they want you to run 'crontab -e' and type this
0 * * * * /path/to/GrabWeather StationID
That'll schedule that script to run repeatedly.

If you've got gkrellm, you might look into the weather plugin for it. It incorporates GrabWeather and so on, but I don't have anything in my crontab for it. It was pretty easy to set up, iirc.

sxa · 02-29-2004, 03:52 PM

I have gkrellm now, but I can't find the weather plugin for Slack 9.1... I tried some other plugins but I could not get them to install.. I am not that great with Tar Files.. somtimes I can get them to work, and somtimes I can't...

slakmagik · 02-29-2004, 05:46 PM

Damn. I can't find it either. Went to the site and got a 404. Usually plugins are just a 'make' and then I copy the resulting *.so file to ~/.gkrellm2/plugins. Then... I think... (it's been awhile since I installed one) you either enable it from the config checkbox or edit the plugin_enable file. Something. If there are errors it usually says what's missing.

But that doesn't do you any good if you can't find it.

Sorry about that.

sxa · 02-29-2004, 08:46 PM

Hey no problem.. I take one problem at a time..

moonloader · 03-01-2004, 12:22 PM

there are different plug-ins for gkrellm as rpm,but for different distros by converting to tgz may solve the problem,but dependencies!one must try.

sxa · 03-01-2004, 12:28 PM

I am not sure how to convert RPMs to tgz files, and beyond that I would need help getting them going, but if someone would like to let me in on this information it would be a lot of help..

John Velman · 03-01-2004, 04:47 PM

There is an application, rpm2tgz, that converts an rpm file into a slackware package.

I'm not sure what it does if the install scripts are complicated, but I've used it for
some simple things and it works well.

It should have been installed when you installed slackware.

It should be in /usr/bin as a link to /usr/bin/rpm2targz.

There is no man page (as far as I can tell), but there is

/usr/doc/rpm2targz/rpm2targz.README

which gives an overview.

Best,

John Velman

sxa · 03-01-2004, 05:19 PM

I will have to look in to that...