Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny
Lanny Marcus spake the following on 7/26/2007 3:13 PM:> Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 > DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent > program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my > CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to > CentOS). TIA, LannyIF it is in Fedora 6, it might be available for Centos 5, or you might be able to re-compile the src rpm. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
On 7/26/07, Lanny Marcus <mailing-lists at computer2.com> wrote:> Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 > DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent > program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my > CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to > CentOS). TIA, LannyBelow is a message from Karsten Wade to the fedora-devel-list. ========<quoted message>============If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something very exciting for you. Ever find yourself rebuilding one of the high-quality Fedora packages for your EL version because it didn't ship with the EL distro? Friends, there is a new way. May we introduce ... Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) EPEL is a community of package maintainers working from inside of Fedora. Many are the same people who maintain the Fedora version. Yet, there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several dozen packages every week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL How to use EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse You can look for packages here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#WhereIsTheSoftwareRepositoryLocated Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ ==========<end quoted message>======== You might want to look into this. HTH ne... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Certified: 75% bastard, 42% of which is tard. http://www.thespark.com/bastardtest Now accepting personal mail for GMail invites.
On 26 July 2007, Scott Silva wrote:> IF it is in Fedora 6, it might be available for Centos 5, or you might > be able to re-compile the src rpm.Scott: This is going to be a huge *LEARNING* experience for me! :-) Many *newbie* questions here: Will it be better for me to get KStars only, from the KStars web site, which comes with a warning (see below), or from Fedora, which is much closer to CentOS? The problem is that it normally is inside the KDE Edutainment RPM and if I get it from Fedora, it will probably be inside that. If I get the KDE Edutainment SRC RPM from Fedora, which version of Fedora should I get it from for CentOS 4.4? (You wrote FC6 for CentOS 5). The kdeedu RPM is not on the CentOS 4.4 DVD. I'm assuming it's not on the CentOS 5.0 DVD, but I don't have that yet. If I'm able to make an RPM for KStars only, I would not plan to install kdeedu later. However, I suspect there may be dependency issues, with other KDE stuff, etc. There is *no* way I will be able to get my wife to use CentOS on her box, if she cannot use KStars! Even my 6 year old daughter wanted to use KStars last night, so her box is another demanding KStars user. TIA, Lanny in Colombia http://edu.kde.org/kstars/> Download: > The official version of KStars is the version shipped with the KDE > Edutainment module. However, we also offer an independent tarball of > the KStars code for download. Our latest release is based on the > KDE_3_5_BRANCH codebase, shortly after KDE 3.5.2 was tagged. > > kstars-1.2.tar.bz2 (7 MB) > > (this is an indirect link, so don't use "Save link as...") > > You may also be interested in our periodic SVN snapshot releases, or > perhaps you'd like to download the SVN code directly. > > Note on version numbers: the last tarball release was called "3.3 > snapshot", but the internal version of that release was 1.0.x. We have > decided to return to using our internal version numbers for these > tarball releases. Sorry for any confusion. > > Note to packagers: If your distribution normally ships a kdeedu > package, rather than individual packages for each app, please do not > package this release. If a user installs a kstars-only package, they > may have problems trying to install a kdeedu package later.
On 27 July 2007, ne wrote:> Below is a message from Karsten Wade to the fedora-devel-list. > How to use EPEL:<snip>> You might want to look into this.Thank you! I will, for sure look into this! This looks like it might be much easier way for me (a newbie) to get KStars onto CentOS boxes. After my very long reply to Scott, this is a short one! I *will* investigate! Lanny
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Lanny Marcus wrote:> Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 > DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent > program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my > CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to > CentOS). TIA, LannyUse the KDE-Redhat repository; see kde-redhat.sourceforge.net. Note that KDE-Redhat does a forklift upgrade of KDE and will change a large number of packages; this may or may not be desireable for you. I have used and currently use KDE-RedHat with several CentOS 4 installs, to get KStars for us to do telescope control. The KDE in CentOS 4 is quite old, and kstars has improved by leaps and bounds since then. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
On 03 August 2007, "Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: <snip>> currently use KDE-RedHat with several CentOS 4 installs, to get KStars > for us to do telescope control. > The KDE in CentOS 4 is quite old, and kstars has improved by leaps and > bounds since then.Lamar: I found a very easy way to do it. I found that for CentOS 4.4, I could install the kdeedu RPM, from the Fedora Core 3 Install DVD, without any problem. And for CentOS 5.0, I installed kdeedu from the FC6 install DVD. That installed a lot of other stuff too.... Thank you for posting! KStars is both powerful and elegant. I am going to put FC7 on my daughters box and let my wife try the latest KStars there. Lanny