XEphem RPM's for Linux

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XEphem is a freely distributed interactive astronomy program for UNIX-based systems with X-Windows. Whether it's viewing the Solar System from above, to making ephemeris tables, or viewing Solar System objects , to looking at tonight's night sky, to exploring individual objects in detail using online images and catalogs... XEphem can do it! :)

You can learn more about this excellent program, written by Elwood Downey of the Clear Sky Institute, by exploring the XEphem Home Page.

The regular installation of XEphem is somewhat complicated in the light of modern packaging tools like RPM. To this end, I have built RPM packages of XEphem that should serve useful. Just plug the XEphem runtime package in and play! Those who use Linux on other architectures can use the source RPM (SRPM) to build their own package (but please forward it to me so I can post it for others!).

Updates!

Updated for XEphem 3.7.3, a new release. This package now includes more gallery images and new NGC, IC and Hipparchos catalogs, thanks to dpkiel. By default, they are not loaded at startup. These packages are statically linked against OpenMotif 2.2.3. As before, it creates desktop entries and icons, for both GNOME and KDE as well as WindowMaker, FVWM, etc.

Updated 9 August 2008

XEphem RPMs for Linux on x86

RPM name File size RPM Description

xephem-3.7.3-2.i386.rpm 12 Mbytes XEphem 3.7.3 for Redhat 9/Fedora Core 1-4 (glibc 2.3)

XEphem Source RPM

RPM name File size RPM Description Package requirements

xephem-3.7.3-2.src.rpm 19 Mbytes Source RPM; for other Linux distributions and alternate architectures X-Windows, C, and OpenMotif development packages

xephem-3.6.4-2.src.rpm 9.0 Mbytes Source RPM for previous version X-Windows, C, and OpenMotif development packages

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Last modified: Aug 9, 2008

RPM name	File size	RPM Description
xephem-3.7.3-2.i386.rpm	12 Mbytes	XEphem 3.7.3 for Redhat 9/Fedora Core 1-4 (glibc 2.3)