Wego: weather forecasts at any time in your terminal!

Having the weather on your desktop environment for GNU / Linux is a very easy thing by adding widgets and other applets, so how to do with those who just use the terminal?

Wego: weather forecasts at any time in your terminal

Wego is a stylish weather app for the terminal. Thanks to a ncurses-based interface, this application allows you to see the conditions and forecasts at a glance. It retrieves the weather forecast for next 5 days weather forecast via API.

Install Wigo on your GNU / Linux distribution

Wego is written in Go language, so the first step is to install the Go language. After installation of Go, proceed to Wego installation.

GO Installation

• Arch Linux / Manjaro :

sudo pacman -S go

• Debian / Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get install golang

• Fedora :

sudo yum install golang

Wego Installation

Copy these lines in a terminal:

go get github.com/schachmat/wego echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

Otherwise on Archlinux & Manjaro, use yaourt and it's all good 

yaourt -S wego-git

Wego requires an API key for weather forecasts. you can take the key from this site https://developer.worldweatheronline.com/ after registration.

You have to copy the key in Wego's configuration file:

nano ~/.wegorc

{         "APIKey": "COLLER-LA-CLE-ICI",         "City": "Paris",         "Imperial": false,         "Lang": "fr" }

Once the key is copied into the configuration file, just run Wego as follows:

wego