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I am having issues with Ubuntu 20.04 re Gnome Extensions, especially OpenWeather, which I seem to have lost since upgrading from 18.04. I have not had a problem previously installing it, but now it seems complicated to do so.

I came across this website which hints that it now needs to be installed as a browser extension. Really? They then go on to mention that I need an extensions default key. I have no idea what that is or what to do with it if I was fortunate enough to know what it is. I then managed to find a Gitlab page where they had more sensible suggestions to install it, and managed to do so from terminal with sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-weather. However even though I now can see OpenWeather as an extension in Tweaks, unfortunately it shows up with an orange triangle with an exclamation mark beside it, and will not switch on.

In short, does anyone know how to get Openweather to work from here, because as far as Ubuntu 20.04 is concerned I no longer have a clue?

Paul Benson
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First, you need to enable Firefox to manage your local Gnome-Shell extensions.

Go to https://extensions.gnome.org/local/, and check if you need to install two pieces of software. Just follow the onscreen instructions.

Then go to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/750/openweather/ to enable the OpenWeather extension. Once installed, go to https://openweathermap.org to obtain a free personal API key, and paste it in in the OpenWeather settings panel. See image below...

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Update #1:

In newer versions of OpenWeather, instead of obtaining a free personal API key, you can just flip the Use extensions api-key for openweather.org to ON.

heynnema
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I tried everything but ultimately I uninstalled Chromium (obtained Ubuntu Software) and installed Chrome by downloading directly from Google. I was then able to get the Gnome extension working in Chrome and was able to install the OpenWeather extension. I read that some Snap installations are problematic.

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