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* Release 1.1. * weather: Switched to "#!/usr/bin/env python" instead for portability. * weather.1, weather.5, weather.py: Implemented the --omit-forecast option to cancel --forecast. * weather.py: Calling with undefined aliases now throws an error and exits. Aliases, options and default overrides operate more logically. Upped the version to 1.1. * weatherrc: Added 214 standard aliases.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEATHER UTILITY
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Copyright (c) 2006 Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>, all rights reserved.
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Licensed per terms in the LICENSE file distributed with this software.
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1. Can I help?
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Sure! Bug reports and feature suggestions are always welcome, but
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fixes and patches are of course preferred. Contact
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fungi@yuggoth.org if desired, but please read this FAQ and the
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included manuals for weather(1) and weatherrc(5) before asking
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questions that might be answered therein. One big way anyone can
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help is to provide me with some additional mappings of METAR
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station ID, city name and state abbreviation for inclusion in the
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default /etc/weatherrc file.
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2. How do I figure out my local METAR station ID?
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The list of stations is found at
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http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.gz (it's thousands of lines
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long, so I recommend keyword searching in your browser or using
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grep(1) to find what you're looking for).
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3. How do I figure out my local city name and state abbreviation?
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The forecasts can be located starting from
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http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/city/ (choose the
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state abbreviation to get to a list of cities in that state).
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4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me
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anyway?
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If you have any recommendations for similar forecast data in
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other countries, I will be happy to try and find a way to
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integrate it into the weather utility, but I suspect that some
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serious modification would be necessary given that the data is
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likely to be published in a non-English language, requiring some
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additional input from speakers of that language for how to handle
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filtering and formatting of the text.
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5. I get a warning when using apt-get to install on Debian Etch
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or later...
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If you're getting a warning from apt-get update like:
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W: GPG error: http://fungi.yuggoth.org ./ Release: The
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following signatures couldn't be verified because the
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public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 29ABF7441FB84657
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...it means my PGP key is not recognized by apt-get. Since this
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isn't an official Debian package repository, the Release.gpg
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file can't be signed by a key on the default keyring. To add my
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personal key to the list of trusted package repository Release
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signers, run (as root):
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finger fungi@yuggoth.org | apt-key add -
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...or if you want to be a little paranoid, retrieve it from a
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public keyserver instead (all one line):
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wget -O- "http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks
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/lookup?op=get&search=0x29ABF7441FB84657" | apt-key add -
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Though if you're really, truly paranoid, you'll re-write the
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program from scratch anyway, right?
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