Download and Installation
Ubuntu
| Name | OpenAstro.org |
| Version | 1.1.23 |
| Date | 06-July-2010 |
| Uses | pySwisseph 1.75.01, Swisseph 1800-2400 |
| Size | 7.1 MB |
| I386 | Lucid | Karmic | Jaunty |
| Amd64 | Lucid | Karmic | Jaunty |
| LPIA | Karmic | Jaunty |
| Source | tar.gz |
| License | GPLv3 |
ArchLinux Installation
Enable the [community] repository (wiki.archlinux.org)
Also, make sure you have sudo installed and that you are are in the sudoers list (wiki.archlinux.org).
Upgrade your system, install the dependencies and build openastro.org:
Run this as a regular user!
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S base-devel
sudo pacman -S pygtk python-dateutil gnome-python-desktop pycairo imagemagick librsvg setuptools
wget --no-check-certificate https://launchpad.net/~pellesimon/+archive/+files/openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
tar -xzf openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
cd openastro.org-1.1.23.orig
sudo ./setup.py install
openastro.py
sudo pacman -S base-devel
sudo pacman -S pygtk python-dateutil gnome-python-desktop pycairo imagemagick librsvg setuptools
wget --no-check-certificate https://launchpad.net/~pellesimon/+archive/+files/openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
tar -xzf openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
cd openastro.org-1.1.23.orig
sudo ./setup.py install
openastro.py
Generic Linux Installation
You can also manually build openastro.org, the pyswisseph module and the ephemeris files.
Make sure you can get these dependencies satisfied to run the program:
- python-gtk2 (or pygtk >= 2.0)
- python-dateutil
- python-gnome2-desktop (or gnome-python-desktop) (>= 2.16)
- python-cairo (or pycairo) (>= 1.2.0)
- imagemagick
- librsvg2-common (or librsvg >= 2.0 )
wget https://launchpad.net/~pellesimon/+archive/+files/openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
tar -xzf openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
cd openastro.org-1.1.23.orig
sudo ./setup.py install
tar -xzf openastro.org_1.1.23.orig.tar.gz
cd openastro.org-1.1.23.orig
sudo ./setup.py install
To run the program type "openastro.py" in a terminal