Installing skychart from source

[Johnny Who]

I haven `t managed to find the following application neither from entropy nor from portage:
http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/start
However, I did manage to find the tarball containing the sources:
http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download
However, when I extracted the archive an tried to run make, I noticed that the makefile included was inappropriate. Any ideas on how to install it from source? Is there probably a Gentoo overlay featuring this app? Thanks in advance.

[Fitzcarraldo]

There is an ebuild for SkyChart (pre-compiled binary) -- see Gentoo Bugzilla Bug Report No. 346699. You could install SkyChart via a Portage local overlay or, if you don't know how to use Portage local overlays, you could file a request for an Entropy package to be created and added to the Entropy repository (see the link 'Bugs' at the top of this page).

[svantoviit]

There's also an ebuild in the yporti overlay

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eix skychart
* sci-astronomy/skychart-bin [1]
     Available versions:  3.6.2150^s {{xplanet}}
     Homepage:            http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/
     Description:         Free software to draw sky charts

[1] "yporti" layman/yporti


so you can try to install it with emerge after adding the overlay.

You need to have git installed and probably rpm.

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layman -a yporti
emerge -a skychart-bin
equo rescue spmsync --ask

Remember it's better to install the dependencies with entropy.

P.S.: You can search the overlays using gpo.zugaina.org or eix.
Another source for ebuilds is Genntoo Bugzilla as Fitzcarraldo already pointed out.

[deadDrift]

Johny Who -

I installed Skychart but went at it a different way. I didn't try to compile, too many dependencies and libraries that I couldn't round up. I downloaded the .DEB package, extracted to a temp directory. I copied the files (watch ownership and permissions) to the appropriate directory based on what directory they were in, in the temp directory. You will be copying files to /usr... and /home/username/... there aren't that many files that go on the 'system' side of your installation.

I did this back with Skychart version 3.1-1349 on a laptop with Sabayon 5 or 6 system. I have been keeping the OS up-to-date almost every week and Skychart still works great. If you have the skill to attempt compiling, you should be able to work out the details for installing the pre-compiled version.

Good luck. It's a great program!
deadDrift