Hi,
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like I said, I'm the maintainer of the rpm packages for xephem on opensuse. I've already been building and providing thoe for ... 15 years or so. I know about building from source and including catalogs.
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Anyways, I just started a new project on my build service account, "astrotoolbox". Eventually the result will be a bootable hybrid iso image (can be written to a DVD or USB stick), unless it turns out bigger than 4.5GB in which case it'll be ony USB Stick, and on it you will find:
KDE Plasma 5 Desktop
GNOME Desktop
XFCE Desktop
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XEphem 4.7.7
kstars
stellarium
cartes du ciel
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and if I can pull it off the virtual moon atlas as well.
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If there is demand there will also be VM images so you can run the whole thing in Hyper-V on your windows computer.
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Cheers
Mathias
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Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 13:38:29 CET schrieb ab1jx:
> I'd say minimal like fvwm. I was trying to remember if it needed X at all
> until I remembered it uses Motif as a widget set.
>
> Wikipedia:
> <>XEphem
> <>
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> Homepage: http:// <>
> <>/
> <>xephem
> <>/
> <>
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> Not sure if you're making a CD or DVD but on the download page there are 3
> tarballs intended originally for CDs. The last 2 contain extra stars
> beyond minimal. There's a readme in there somewhere that tells how to
> install them. When it's working right it's hard to run out of stars even
> with a lot of zooming. I think it's been dropped from Debian debs and
> you'll probably need to build from sources. Not hard to do but it wants
> xprint I think, I haven't done it in a year or so.
> Hey guys,
>
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> I'm the maintainer for xephem on openSUSE, I guess I could spin up a live
> CD based on openSUSE Leap 15.1 on short notice. What Desktop Environment
> would be preferred?
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> The available options:
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> KDE Plasma 5
> GNOME
> XCFE
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>
> cheers
> MH
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> Am 2019-12-05 10:29, schrieb ab1jx:
> > OK, good luck. I assume the current XEphem will be the final one, so
> > it's worth building in the extra star catalogs.
> >
> > I wonder if it could be compiled to run on an Android phone or tablet?
> > It would certainly fit on a small SD card, I mostly don't know about
> > the tiny user interface. Android uses a Linux kernel.
> >
> > On Dec 5, 2019 4:04 AM, <maxime.gommeaux@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi ab1jx,
> >
> >> Thank you for your suggestions. I also received a message from the
> >> Jura supporting the use of a virtual machine in my case, I will see
> >> if my campus' IT people know how to do this. I also got an offer
> >> from one of this mailing-list's subscribers from Provence to compile
> >> a Knoppix live CD with XEphem 3.7.7.
> >> Thank you all for your help!
> >> Maxime
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] /g/xephem/message/3697
> > [2] /mt/65753749/998436
> > [3] /g/xephem/post
> > [4] /g/xephem/editsub/998436
> > [5] /g/xephem/leave/defanged
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