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+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
