Skychart can be installed on windows and linux. Its is open source and a great planetarium program that even can control telescopes. The source can be downloaded here for 32 and 64 bit linux platforms. http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download Unfortunately, there is no ebuild for it in gentoo... Reproducible: Always
You may use my ebuild for skychart: https://github.com/monoid/gentoo-astronomy/tree/master/sci-astronomy/skychart-bin/
Hi, there is already a newer version of skychart than the bin ebuild in your overlay. Furthermore, I was able to build skychart from source and it works on my system. So, it should be possible to write a source ebuild. One for the program itself and additional ebuilds for the data files (pictures, catalogues). But at the moment, I do not know how to do it. Neverhteless, skychart is a great program. Much better than kstars, for example. So it deserves to be in gentoo's main three.
Thank you, Benjamin, I wasn't aware of new version of skychart and updated my skychart-bin ebuild. Of course, normal ebuild is better than bin ebuild, but meantime you may use package from my overlay. There is also potential problem (this is a warning for potential ebuild writer): both SkyChart and Virtual Moon Atlas use libplan404.so, but it seems they use (or used, as I tested some time ago) different versions of this library (SkyChart failed to work with libplan404.so from VMA distribution, and vice versa). My binary ebuilds keep these libraries in a separated folders.
(In reply to comment #3) > Thank you, Benjamin, I wasn't aware of new version of skychart and updated my > skychart-bin ebuild. > > Of course, normal ebuild is better than bin ebuild, but meantime you may use > package from my overlay. bump...
Skychart is at 3.8
bin blob ebuilds are useless when there is source available that decreases the chance of a dev picking this up
yo kiddos, try this +*skychart-3.8.2450 (21 Apr 2013) + + 21 Apr 2013; Julian Ospald <hasufell@gentoo.org> +skychart-3.8.2450.ebuild, + +files/skychart-3.8.2450-QA.patch, +metadata.xml: + initial import wrt #346699
