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Re: it is time to create a flatpak for xephem
That would be nice. Or something that works with apt-get.
By Sarty, Gordon · #3762 ·
Re: it is time to create a flatpak for xephem
Are you talking about a Snap installer package?
By Jay C. "Jazzy_J" Theriot · #3761 ·
Re: it is time to create a flatpak for xephem
I would like that. I have still not been able to get xephem to work on ubuntu 20. Gordon
By Sarty, Gordon · #3760 ·
it is time to create a flatpak for xephem
Most of the posts here are about installation problems. it is time to create a flatpak for xephem. who knows someone who can do this?
By georg180662 · #3759 ·
Re: XEphem crash upon date selection
Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 - Mate distribution. Tested on 4 machines here. Hobby environment.No crash on Date selection. Pointed, clicked. No crash - and the skyview updated when selected. On install of
By Edwin Hollander · #3758 ·
Re: XEphem crash upon date selection
Hi, I recompiled xephem with the attached Makefile: http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem-3.7.7.tgz tar xvf xephem-3.7.7.tar.gz cd xephem-3.7.7/GUI/xephem make strip xephem sudo? cp
By Werner Hoelzl · #3757 ·
Re: XEphem crash upon date selection
Dear Bernie, Thank you for your message. Below are the installation that the IT people tell me they have used: sudo apt-get update Download and uncompress the archive XEphem-3.7.7-disk1.tgz sudo
By Maxime GOMMEAUX · #3756 ·
Re: XEphem crash upon date selection
I am sorry to hear that. I too have Ubuntu 20.04 (with Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.1), but I do not have the problem you describe. Curious to learn whether anyone else sees that difficulty. Bernie
By Bernie Walp · #3755 ·
XEphem crash upon date selection
Dear members of the XEphem community, I am using XEphem for basic practical courses on celestial dynamics in a Bachelor for would-be primary school teachers. Unfortunately, most students experienced
By Maxime GOMMEAUX · #3754 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
It's still an amazing program. I haven't found another modern program that would replace it. There are many Astronomical programs, but, IMHO, none that do all of what XEphem does. I guess the search
By Jay C. "Jazzy_J" Theriot · #3753 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
I can say that the xephem installation on FreeBSD 12.1 from ports works like a charm!?/usr/ports/astro/xephem/make install clean? And thats it! Eric De La Cruz Lugo.M¨¦rida, Yucat¨¢n, M¨¦xico.
By Eric De La Cruz Lugo · #3752 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
Thanks - it's pretty clear. I'll try. But it's looking like the end-of-the-line for XEphem.
By Sarty, Gordon · #3751 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
I generally write notes for me..... so, apologies in advance. I don't always do the best job. groups.io wrote:
By Jay C. "Jazzy_J" Theriot · #3750 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
Is this still a live issue? I am running XEphem without error on 20.04. These are my notes. They may be cryptic. If you need clarification, let me know. I'll clean them
By Jay C. "Jazzy_J" Theriot · #3749 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
Too much is deprecated which keeps breaking stuff. It's an advantage of Linux From Scratch maybe. Or one of the BSDs. Xmu is part of Motif, you need the dev stuff with libraries and include files.
By ab1jx · #3748 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
Thanks. I tried that and the make went further until it hit: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXmu collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Makefile:196: xephem] Error 1 I think the problem
By Sarty, Gordon · #3747 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
Hello, I have successfully installed XEphem on Ubuntu 18.04 using the libxp package from Sergio Oller: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeehio/libxp sudo apt update sudo apt-get install -y
By Maxime GOMMEAUX · #3746 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
Thanks, I¡¯ll take a look. Gordon
By Sarty, Gordon · #3745 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
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
By Bernie Walp · #3744 ·
Re: Can't get xephem to work in ubuntu 20.04
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
By ab1jx · #3743 ·