An XEphem user with a *.pl web-page (as I recall) provided the package I finally was able to install in my Linux Mint Ubuntu ver.20. It works fine.
Unfortunately I cannot locate my notes, but I'll keep looking.
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On 1/9/21 4:59 PM, ab1jx wrote:
I vaguely remember having to build xprint from source, this was on a
Raspberry Pi back a couple Raspbian versions. You could try searching
the archives of this list for xprint, but I think I mentioned it on
the raspberrrypi.org forum.
See about the middle of the first page at
which was my post. xprintf vanished between Jessie and Stretch but it
tells on that page how I got it installed.
On 1/9/21, metalevel@... <metalevel@...> wrote:
I tried two routes, neither worked:
#1 Install using the linux_install.sh file, then run the installed
version
Result: xephem: error while loading shared libraries: libXP.so.6: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
Analysis: After much searching and library install attempts, this file
seems long deprecated and not available for ubuntu 20.04
#2 compile from scratch using make MOTIF=../../libXm/linux86 (with the
MOTFI and MOTIFL variables suitably modified in the makefile)
Result: crash because aavso.c can't find X11/extensions/Print.h The
directory exists but Print.h does not because it is part of Xprint which
has been deprecated since 2008 according to wikipedia.
Has anyone been able to make xephem work on ubuntu 20.04? If so how?
Yep. Have compiled and installed it on an Ubuntu 20.04 box. Cannot remember
any problems, but needed to install some libs, probably the ones for Motif.
I will try again tomorrow and see, whether I can reproduce the issue you
have and how to fix it...
