KDE4 and LiquidWeather

[tlayton_at_work]

I've finally figured how to get LiquidWeather to work on KDE 4 using the native Add Widgets. Previously when adding, it kept saying PyQt is not installed and exiting, sometimes crashing Plasma. However, PyQt is installed. After some investigation, finally found a solution.

So I thought I'd share it here.

First, make sure you have the package python-qt4 installed.

Using the Add Widgets, select Install from File. Choose SuperKaramba. Click Next and find the lwp-14.8.skz. and Click Finish.

The contents of the skz will be extracted to ~/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/sk_lwp-14.8

You need to modify the file liquid_weather.py. In the method checkDependencies(widget), it tries importing qt libs, which for whatever reason fails. So comment out the following (line 3663-3668):

  try:
    from qt import *
    hasqt = 1
  except:
    karamba.execute('kdialog --title "%s" --error "%s" &' %(_('Critical Error'),_('You do not have PyQT installed. This is a critical dependency for Liquid Weather ++. Please install it and try again.')))
    sys.exit()

Select it in the widget list and add to desktop. All seems to be working fine now.

[Fredh]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

Thank you very much. This is something I have been trying to do for a while.

I do have a few questions though:

Using the Add Widgets, select Install from File. Choose SuperKaramba. Click Next and find the lwp-14.8.skz. and Click Finish.

I don't have that option in my add widgets. Unless you are talking about the superkaramba design chooser.

~/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/

This does not exist

So comment out the following (line 3663-3668):

I don't have a line: 3662-3668 or acheckDependencies(widget) method

[cjt-1974]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

It is worth adding that an additional dependency (I did not have this installed and was needed) is the package

libkrosspython0

Otherwise, a kross no present error message appears.

I only got it running from the superkaramba applets list, but not from the Add Widgets from Plasma

[Snowhog]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

I don't have that option in my add widgets. Unless you are talking about the superkaramba design chooser.

Right-click, Add Widgets, Install New Widgets, Install from File

[Guest]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

I finally have lwp15.0 working in kubuntu kde4 hardy with help from this post.
However, I could not find liquid_weather.py under ~/.kde4/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/sk_lwp-15.0.

What I did:
0) download lwp-15.0.skz
1) rename lwp-15.0.skz to lwp-15.0.zip
2) unzip it to lwp-15.0
3) cd into lwp-15.0
4) open liquid_weather.py with text editor
6) remove lines 3663-3668 as suggested in this post.
7)find superkaramba in the "application launcher" (kicker) and start superkaramba.
8)click "open" under "open new theme".
9)navigate to the folder lwp-15.0 and select liquid_weather.theme.
10) configure to you're city and preference by right clicking on widget window.
11)install kross if it complains about it not being installed. mine was all ready installed

[kevin79]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

I just followed the instructions on this thread and got liquid weather working on plasma. I have one problem though. LWP doesn't update. When I boot, it updates fine but whenever it tries to update after that, it constantly says it is "Fetching data". Does anyone else have this problem?

[Guest]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

Yes, I have this same problem on kubuntu intrepid.
I must close widget and add it to make it works

[Guest]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

The instructions here did not work for me however I was able to get LiquidWeather++ 15.0 installed on Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE4 using some of the information provided.

Packages I was missing included superkaramba-kde4, libkrosspython0 (installed as a dependency of kdebindings-kde4) and python-qt4.

I downloaded lwp-15.0.skz, renamed it to lwp-15.0.zip and unzipped it to a new directory lwp-15.1. Changed into the lwp-15.1 directory and edited liquid_weather.py to remove lines 3663-3668 then ran `zip -r ~/lwp-15.1.skz *` (without backquotes), to generate a new SuperKaramba package.

I was then able to add lwp-15.1.skz as a regular SuperKaramba package file.

[Guest]

Re: KDE4 and LiquidWeather

Hi!
My LiquidWeather++ 15.0 doesn't update too.
Any ideas how to solve this problem...