Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny
Lanny Marcus spake the following on 7/26/2007 3:13 PM:
Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny
IF it is in Fedora 6, it might be available for Centos 5, or you might be able to re-compile the src rpm.
On 7/26/07, Lanny Marcus mailing-lists@computer2.com wrote:
Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny
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You might want to look into this.
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On Thursday 26 July 2007, Lanny Marcus wrote:
Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like to migrate her and my daughter to CentOS). TIA, Lanny
Use the KDE-Redhat repository; see kde-redhat.sourceforge.net. Note that KDE-Redhat does a forklift upgrade of KDE and will change a large number of packages; this may or may not be desireable for you. I have used and currently use KDE-RedHat with several CentOS 4 installs, to get KStars for us to do telescope control.
The KDE in CentOS 4 is quite old, and kstars has improved by leaps and bounds since then.
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