Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Ubuntu download

[David F. <dfo...@gm...>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Ethan Anderson <et...@gm...> wrote:

> My package works, I don't know if it's optimal or not, in fact the
> settings dialogs seem a bit laggy (don't think that's my fault), but I

It's good that there is (unofficial) a package for Ubuntu, as I was
not aware of that.

But there is another alternative - you can use svn and get the latest
sources if you want something fresher. I've been using svn sources for
stellarium ever since 0.9.0 or thereabouts, on first Debian Lenny and
now Intrepid Ubuntu (now using 64 bit too).

svn is a way to get the most recent version - what the developers are
working on, and you only download the changes that have been submitted
since the last download. Stellarium isn't too hard to build, and if
you're comfortable going that route, I may be able to help or offer
pointers.

> think stellarium should either have an apt server or .debs available
> for download of every release, from the site, along with .exe and .dmg
> packages.

Well, it would be nice of course. Don't know how practical that is for
the Stellarium wiki to host that, and it's available for ubuntu - but
only 0.9.1 in Intrepid. According to "aptiitude show stellarium" the
maintainer and original maintainer of the package is listed, and you
could write to either or both of them saying you'd like 0.10 to be
included. It is too late for Intrepid, but maybe for the next Ubuntu?

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