To install weatherbug issue the following command in the terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal )
Note : Weatherbug needs Java Runtime Environment to be installed since it is a java application , also i have found that weatherbug for some reason does not work with open source gcj instead it needs Sun JRE . Inorder to run weatherbug you would have to install Sun JRE which could be done by typing the following command in the terminal window :
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre libswt3.2-gtk-java
To install weatherbug issue the following command in the terminal window :
wget http://wdownload.weatherbug.com/linux/weatherbug-1.0-1.deb
and
sudo dpkg -i weatherbug-1.0-1.deb
After completing the installation you can launch weatherbug from (Applications -> Accessories -> Weatherbug )
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