[kwlug-disc] Weather Forecast in Ubuntu variants

[Hubert Chathi]

On Sat, 13 May 2017 18:38:21 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> said:

> # Install the .deb using gdebi
> sudo gdebi xfce4-weather-plugin_0.8.9-1_amd64.deb

> Only drawback is that you will not get updates for this package, since
> it is directly installed using gdebi (not from repos), but now I have
> working weather.

As long as the package name is the same, you should still get updates if
the repo gets updated with a package with a higher version.  It doesn't
matter how you installed the package in the first place.