Additional Astronomy Software for Repos

rich52 · #1 10th September 2011, 04:34 PM

I installed a program called 'VirtualMoon' on my F15 KDE system this morning. I was wondering if anyone has looked into this program.

http://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/download

It can be installed in Windows, Mac and Linux.

Anyways maybe someone can repackage it for the repo's. Installation as a tar file was simple and the executable file is a bin file. The program is an excellent one and would make a great addition to the Astronomy software selections that are available. It also interfaces with Skycharts (cartes du ciel) which is in your Fedora repositories. It took about 5 minutes to install . It was only once offered for Windows but has now included Mac and Linux.

richard

***bob*** · #2 10th September 2011, 05:40 PM

Moved to Software. Suggestions & Feedback is for Forum issues.

leigh123linux · #3 10th September 2011, 06:24 PM

Add it to the wishlist

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packag...iners/WishList

marko · #4 11th September 2011, 02:21 AM

@Richard

You tried Stellarium right?, now that's a really nice piece of astronomical software.

***DBelton*** · #5 11th September 2011, 07:45 AM

They won't include that entire package in Fedora.

The program is GPL, but I couldn't find the source.If the source isn't available, Fedora won't include it.

And the databases are copyrighted, so Fedora won't include them.

leigh123linux · #6 11th September 2011, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBelton

They won't include that entire package in Fedora.

The program is GPL, but I couldn't find the source.If the source isn't available, Fedora won't include it.

And the databases are copyrighted, so Fedora won't include them.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virt...Version%205.1/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virt...1.tgz/download

It's still worth putting it on the fedora wishlist (I noticed truecrypt there a few years back and repackaged it as realcrypt for rpmfusion as the license was never going acceptable for fedora).
rpmfusion also have a wishlist.

http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist

***DBelton*** · #7 11th September 2011, 03:16 PM

I meant to suggest putting it into rpmfusion instead of fedora, but yes, I would still add it to the fedora wishlist as well.

I may install this app a little later today and look a lot closer at it. It does appear to be a very nice application if you are interested in astronomy.

Edit:

Whether this package ends up in the fedora/rpmfusion repos or not, I would like to thank rich52 up there for his post and link to this app. I had never seen this one before.