Weather Display install on Linux Mint 22 - Is another licence required and best install method?

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Greetings,
First time post…

I’m currently preparing to move from Win10 to Linux Mint.
Weather Display has been a great resource on several PCs over the years, uploading data from the Davis Vantage Pro to our website.

I remembered WD has a Linux version, so I followed the instructions but:

  • I am new to Linux and don’t know the significance of the ‘GTK’ mentioned in the notes - I tried ‘apt install GTK’ but got nowhere :slight_smile:
  • The ‘./GoWeather’ command was not successful either.

Undeterred, I successfully installed WD (Win ver) with Wine and it opens up Ok.

I entered my Rego code from waaay back, but it does not register on Winer.

Do I have to pay the US$58 again to get the Win version registered on Wine?

Grateful for any tips on getting the Linux version as an alternative.

TIA

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I can’t help you with getting it working on Linux but if you need a new key, email Brian with you registration details and he’ll send you a new one. If you use a different email address now than the one you originally used to registered WD tell him your original email address.

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Thank you very much Chris, will do.

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Was this the command that stumped you when you attempted to get it running in Linux Mint:

First install package via terminal window (one time)
sudo apt install libwebkitgtk-3.0

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Sorry for late reply.
Yes it was - from memory I had to use -6.0-4

Now I’m looking for ways to import old config settings from Win and historical data (since 2017) to get up and running in Mint (but not from scratch hope).

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Good luck. I can’t help with that, I haven’t used Windoze since 1988.

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An update on Weather Display in the Linux Mint (LM) environment…

Although I got the Linux flavour of wdisplay to run Ok in LM, the prog has stopped a few times (randomly).

So today I installed the latest Win version via Wine.
It took some digging to get the USB/Serial converter to talk to wdisplay but it’s now running.

Next hurdle is to get the historical records to show up.
I have copied over all the earlier Log and Data files from my earlier Windows 10 folders but no records prior to this month show up.

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