Displaying Weather on the Desktop with ConkyForecast

[ Thanks to Dmitri Popov for this link. ]

"First off, you have to install the Conky Forecast. To do this, open the sources.list file for editing using the gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list command. Add then the following line at the end of the file:

"deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/m-buck/ubuntu intrepid main

"Open the terminal and run the command below to install ConkyForecast:

"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install conkyforecast

"Next, you have to obtain a Partner ID and a License Key from the The Weather Channel which is required for accessing weather data. Once you have done that, use the command below to copy the .conkyForecast.config file to your home directory:"

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