Thanks for the reply, Gordon. My favorite search engine for RPMs is
rpm.pbone.net. It lists no rpms for Fedora after Fedora 7. There is
one for OpenSUSE 15.2, but that is usually incompatible. As I wrote
to Gilbert, I will try compiling the tarball.
Doug.
On Wed, 17 Mar 2021
08:54:47 -0600 "Sarty, Gordon" <gordon.sarty@...> wrote:
Hi,
I posted here a month or so ago that I couldn't get xephem install on
my new ubuntu 20.04. So I thought I'd report that I now have it
working. I can't say exactly how I did it. I just kept hacking in
libraries until it compiled.
I am very very happy that I have xephem again.
Gordon
On 2021-03-17 8:05 a.m., Gilbert Gnarley via groups.io wrote:
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For what's it's worth I recently installed Xephem 3.7.7 on a fresh
64 bit Fedora 33 system from the XEphem-3.7.7-disk1.tgz file.
I had to install Motif and I did that with the dnf command:
????????????? sudo install motif.x86_64, motif-devel.x86_64,
motif-static.x86_64.
I had no issues and it actually runs.
On 3/17/21 9:04 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
(Third attempt to post this. :(? )
I have the originakl XEphem-3.7.7.
Today I tried to update it to the latest release and had 2 issues:
(a) Firstly, I downloaded the 2019 magnetic variation file (the
address on the NOAA site has changed), and copied it to replace
the old one, in /usr/lib/. The file apparently can't be read; the
magnetic variation should be +7.4, and a figure in that range is
shown in the new file, but the program now shows +0.0.? I checked
the ownership, and the permissions are standard.
(2) I then downloaded the SRPM for Fedora, and tried to configure
it for my distro (Mageia)? The RPM builder keeps saying that the
dependency libXmu-devel isn't met (32-bit or 64-bit.)? I had
installed both. No version is mentioned in the spec file.
*System, Mageia 8 (just released) running 64-bit.? Routinely
accepts spec files for PCLos and Fedora.
