Installation on Linux Debian or Ubuntu

The Debian package is available to enable automatic installation using apt-get.

First, become root or use sudo on each command.

Add Patrick Chevalley's signature to APT:

wget -q http://www.ap-i.net/pub/patrick_chevalley.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list to add the following line:

deb http://www.ap-i.net/deb/ skychart/

Then refresh your package list, from a command line type:

apt-get update

The pre-requisite software are normally automatically installed. If not, check you have the packages libgtk2.0-0, libglib2.0-0, libpango1.0-0, libjpeg62, libpng12-0, libsqlite3-0

Also install Xplanet if you want to show the planets pictures and Indi to drive your telescope:

apt-get install xplanet indi

and install the software:

apt-get install skychart

and if you have plenty of space:

apt-get install skychart-pictures

That's all, exit the root shell and type skychart to run the program.