Fred Smith writes: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 08:33:46AM +0100, Nux! wrote: > > I've rebuilt libmateweather for EL7 with the aforementioned patch and it seems to have fixed the issue. > > Feel free to use it until EPEL package the fix. > > > > http://li.nux.ro/download/nux//tmp/libmateweather7/ > > thanks Nux! > > I installed it and it now gets current conditions just fine. > > but I tried several different locations and all of them say that there > is no forecast available. Possible coincidence?? The patch is incomplete. The Mate guys didn't patch this file. Run tcpdump and verify it's trying query www.weather.gov/forecasts. # pwd /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/libgweather-2.28.0/libgweather # grep http * |grep forecast weather-iwin.c: /* see the description here: http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/ */ weather-iwin.c: url = g_strdup_printf ("http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/sample_products/browser_interface/ndfdBrowserClientByDay.php?&lat=%.02f&lon=%.02f&format=24+hourly&startDate=%04d-%02d-%02d&numDays=7", weather-iwin.c: url = g_strdup_printf ("http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/%s/%s.txt", state, zone); [root at torr libgweather]#