Installing Stellarium 10.1 in Hardy

[David Fox]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Although I do have the Backports repo enabled, I cannot install the
> stellarium 10.1 .deb from Launchpad on Hardy, as I am missing many
> dependencies:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of stellariu
> m:

You might want to inquire further on either the stellarium pubdevel
mailing list or the stellarium / sourceforge wiki. The best way (so
far) to solve most of these problems is to follow the wiki's
suggestions on building from source, and it will give you the files
needed to install to satisfy the dependencies

 >  stellarium depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.7); however:
>  Version of libfreetype6 on system is 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.1.
>  stellarium depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.3.2); however:
>  Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4.

I'd hazard a guess that the packager built this against intrepid. :)


http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Compilation_on_Linux