--- In [email protected], Ed Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Navneeth wrote:
> > I just noticed that a new beta was out, and it was also available as
a
> > .deb file. Since I use Ubuntu, I preferred to download that, but
when
> > I click on the link, I get a page that's filled with a lot of
> > funny-looking characters.
>
> I also use Skychart on Ubuntu. I find it terribly slow, though,
> so I don't use it much. I don't think it's Skychart's fault as
> such - I suspect it's to do with the display drivers as some other
> applications (e.g., Google Earth) are impossibly slow. Just
> haven't got round to sorting that out yet as it doesn't affect
> anything I use a lot.
>
> Don't quite know why you are getting a lot of funny-looking
> characters though I suspect something odd is happening in your
> browser so it's misidentifying the file as text.
>
> > Where else can I get that installer?
>
> Skycharts is on Sourceforge and you can access it as a Debian
> repository using Synaptic or the lower level Debian package
> management tools. Add the repository to your system by editing
> the file /etc/apt/sources.list to add the line:
>
> deb http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ skychart/
>
> You can then install Skycharts like any other Ubuntu package
> and you'll get updates in the normal way - that's how I got
> this version.
>
> I think you can also edit the sources.list file use Synaptic's
> Software Preferences dialog but I have limited faith in this:
> though the dialog box is called "Software Preferences" it is
> accessed via Settings->Repositories, but is not to be confused
> with the Preferences dialog accessed via Settings->Preferences
> but that's obvious because the help text tells you ...wait for
> it... to use the Repositories dialog which is accessed via
> Preferences->Repositories. Sigh!
>
> Ed.
>
