How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04

In this article, you will learn How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04. It is an open source application that is also a great weather app to bring you the latest global news feeds that keeps you updated on the weather conditions by tracking your current location using the GeoClue D-Bus service. The Coffee Weather App takes up the latest weather news from Darksky and uses the News API provided by newsapi.org to get the latest global news. You can select news websites that you want to use the latest coffee app to bring the latest new ones for you. Coffee contains BBC Sport, Google News, BBC News, and many more famous news websites.

How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04
How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04

Follow the below steps to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04:

Before installing, we need to install an official PPA repository for coffee news and weather apps because it is not part of the default repository of Ubuntu 18.04. So use the following command to install the PPA repository.

mangesh@itsmarttricks:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:coffee-team/coffee
[sudo] password for mangesh:
Keep up-to-date with current news and weather with Coffee
More info: https://launchpad.net/~coffee-team/+archive/ubuntu/coffee
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coffee-team/coffee/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15.9 kB]
Get:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release [943 B]
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease

After installing the PPA repository, use the following command to update Ubuntu 18.04 packages and repositories.

mangesh@itsmarttricks:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coffee-team/coffee/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:6 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Hit:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

We are now ready to install coffee news and weather app. So let’s go ahead and install it using the following command.

mangesh@itsmarttricks:~$ sudo apt-get install com.github.nick92.coffee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
accountwizard apt-config-icons-large apt-config-icons-large-hidpi
audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data bluefish-data bluefish-plugins
brasero-cdrkit brasero-common ca-certificates-mono cdparanoia cdrskin
cli-common dvd+rw-tools dvdauthor ffmpegthumbs fonts-font-awesome fonts-hack
fonts-hack-ttf fonts-lato freerdp-x11 gconf2 greybird-gtk-theme growisofs
gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-xfce ieee-data javascript-common k3b-data kamera
kate5-data kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kded5 kdegraphics-thumbnailers kdepim-addons
kdoctools5 kf5-kdepim-apps-libs-data kf5-messagelib-data kgamma5
konsole-kpart konversation-data ksysguard-data ksysguardd ktexteditor-data
ktexteditor-katepart ktorrent-data libampache-browser libappindicator1
libatkmm-1.6-1v5 libaudcore5 libaudgui5 libaudqt2 libaudtag3 libbonobo2-0
libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libbrasero-media3-1
libburn4 libc-ares2 libcairomm-1.0-1v5 libcfitsio5 libcln6 libcolorcorrect5
libcue1 libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus-glib2.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil
libdbus2.0-cil libdolphinvcs5 libebur128-1 libeditorconfig0 libexo-1-0
libexo-2-0 libexo-common libexo-helpers libfakekey0 libflac++6v5
libfreerdp-cache1.1 libfreerdp-client1.1 libfreerdp-codec1.1

As you can see above we have successfully installed the coffee news and weather app package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.

mangesh@itsmarttricks:~$ sudo dpkg -l com.github.nick92.coffee
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii com.github.nic 2.2.0~ubuntu amd64 Keep up with current news and wea

Now to open the application just type the command com.github.nick92.coffee on shell prompt. Refer to the command below.

mangesh@itsmarttricks:~$ com.github.nick92.coffee
How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04
Coffee News and Weather App

You can also open the Coffee News and Weather App application graphically using Search your Ubuntu Applications box. Refer to the snapshot below.

How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04
Coffee News and Weather App

Also Read – How to install QuiteRSS Free News Reader in Ubuntu 18.04

How To Uninstall Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04?

For any reasons, if you don’t like Coffee News and Weather App and want to uninstall the application from your system using the following command.

mangesh@itsmarttricks:~$ sudo dpkg -r com.github.nick92.coffee
(Reading database ... 238265 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing com.github.nick92.coffee (2.2.0~ubuntu18.04) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.1-2ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

That’s all, In this article, we have explained How to install Coffee News and Weather App in Ubuntu 18.04. I hope you enjoy this article. If you like this article, then just share it. If you have any questions about this article, please comment.

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