On 26 July 2007, Scott Silva wrote:
IF it is in Fedora 6, it might be available for Centos 5, or you might be able to re-compile the src rpm.
Scott: This is going to be a huge *LEARNING* experience for me! :-) Many *newbie* questions here: Will it be better for me to get KStars only, from the KStars web site, which comes with a warning (see below), or from Fedora, which is much closer to CentOS? The problem is that it normally is inside the KDE Edutainment RPM and if I get it from Fedora, it will probably be inside that. If I get the KDE Edutainment SRC RPM from Fedora, which version of Fedora should I get it from for CentOS 4.4? (You wrote FC6 for CentOS 5). The kdeedu RPM is not on the CentOS 4.4 DVD. I'm assuming it's not on the CentOS 5.0 DVD, but I don't have that yet. If I'm able to make an RPM for KStars only, I would not plan to install kdeedu later. However, I suspect there may be dependency issues, with other KDE stuff, etc. There is *no* way I will be able to get my wife to use CentOS on her box, if she cannot use KStars! Even my 6 year old daughter wanted to use KStars last night, so her box is another demanding KStars user. TIA, Lanny in Colombia
Download: The official version of KStars is the version shipped with the KDE Edutainment module. However, we also offer an independent tarball of the KStars code for download. Our latest release is based on the KDE_3_5_BRANCH codebase, shortly after KDE 3.5.2 was tagged.
kstars-1.2.tar.bz2 (7 MB)
(this is an indirect link, so don't use "Save link as...")
You may also be interested in our periodic SVN snapshot releases, or perhaps you'd like to download the SVN code directly.
Note on version numbers: the last tarball release was called "3.3 snapshot", but the internal version of that release was 1.0.x. We have decided to return to using our internal version numbers for these tarball releases. Sorry for any confusion.
Note to packagers: If your distribution normally ships a kdeedu package, rather than individual packages for each app, please do not package this release. If a user installs a kstars-only package, they may have problems trying to install a kdeedu package later.
Lanny Marcus spake the following on 7/27/2007 6:29 AM:
On 26 July 2007, Scott Silva wrote:
IF it is in Fedora 6, it might be available for Centos 5, or you might be able to re-compile the src rpm.
Scott: This is going to be a huge *LEARNING* experience for me! :-) Many *newbie* questions here: Will it be better for me to get KStars only, from the KStars web site, which comes with a warning (see below), or from Fedora, which is much closer to CentOS? The problem is that it normally is inside the KDE Edutainment RPM and if I get it from Fedora, it will probably be inside that. If I get the KDE Edutainment SRC RPM from Fedora, which version of Fedora should I get it from for CentOS 4.4? (You wrote FC6 for CentOS 5). The kdeedu RPM is not on the CentOS 4.4 DVD. I'm assuming it's not on the CentOS 5.0 DVD, but I don't have that yet. If I'm able to make an RPM for KStars only, I would not plan to install kdeedu later. However, I suspect there may be dependency issues, with other KDE stuff, etc. There is *no* way I will be able to get my wife to use CentOS on her box, if she cannot use KStars! Even my 6 year old daughter wanted to use KStars last night, so her box is another demanding KStars user. TIA, Lanny in Colombia
There is a KDE repo for use with yum, but it will change things. For a desktop it should be OK. http://www.2robots.com/2005/05/18/kde-yum-repository/
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