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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain bbweather

bbweather 0.2.1 can be obtained from:

View the Changelog for (d'uh) changes.
Older versions can be downloaded from here.

2.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile and use bbweather, you need the following programs and libraries which are available on most platforms as distribution packages and thereby can be installed easily.

Required:

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to install bbweather on your system, type the following in the directory to which you downloaded the bbweather distribution:


% tar zxvf bbweather-0.2.tar.gz
% cd bbweather-0.2
%./configure
% make
% su
% make install

This will compile bbweather and install it in /usr/local/bin/, its configuration files in /usr/local/share/bbtools/ and the man-pages in /usr/local/man/man1. bbweather also installs GrabWeather, a perl-script that fetches the relevant weather-data, in /usr/local/bin/.

Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at jschauma@netmeister.org

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