Re: debian astrolog package tips
On Saturday 10 February 2007 07:25, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> An astrolog.dat file should have been included with the debian astrolog
> package and wasn't. It could have been put in /usr/share/astrolog. The
> ephemeris files located in ephemall.zip could have joined that
> astrolog.dat file in /usr/share/astrolog as well but didn't. No matter I
> got my astrolog.dat out of the dos version of the package and downloaded
> the ephemall.zip file and set things up on my system. After having dug
> through the documentation I realized the package didn't set the ASTR
> variable so it pointed at /usr/share/astrolog so an export statement later
> in .bash_profile later I had the ephemeris files working using Debian.
> export ASTR="/usr/share/astrolog" and now I'll probably move some things
> from /usr/share/doc/astrolog into /usr/share/astrolog since those aren't
> documentation files like fixplaces.ast. The ftp address in that is no
> longer valid so it's more research to find a new one that will work for it
> later today after I've gone to shopping and had breakfast. I have my
> astrolog.dat file in my home directory for now though since that worked
> earlier.
Hi,
I am using astrolog with both Sarge and Etch, it installed perfectly each time
that i installed it with a simple call to "apt-get install astrolog" minus
the quotes of course, and with your apt-get sources.lst properly adjusted.
The use of it is a bit different if you have used it on a windows machine,
however I prefer the Linux way of using it.
If there would be anything that I would change about the installation it would
be the default location from /usr/games/astrolog to something more
appropriate to what the application actually is.
After installation I just run a command from a console like this;
/usr/games/astrolog -X -qb 2 10 2007 6:24am 0 7 104W59 39N44 -Yn -i2 wade -HX
to create a dual wheel chart consisting of todays transits to my natal chart,
which is just a reference to a text file consisting of my data located in the
current directory.
I have no need to change my environment variables unless I do not like to type
the above referenced command, and would instead prefer to just
type "astrolog" to call the program, of course I would still need to include
the parameters. Also you may have an additional security concern if you
employ this method depending on the use of your machine.
If I recall correctly there have been many so called upgraded versions of
astrolog especially of the windows variety, and there was originally a kde
implementation that I first saw as a .rpm package which I found to have many
problems.
I think the .deb package is much closer to the original and I find that I
prefer it. I am sure everyone who uses astrolog would be very happy if you
would do an upgrade of the package.
Much thanks,
--
Wade E Baisden PCRE, Linux+, Server+
mrweb@forethought.net
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