| Summary: | Kstars can not find the file TZrules.dat | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kstars | Reporter: | shevegen <shevegen> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | git | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
Oh I forgot to add which source - I was using the git download button, and then repackaged it; 23.09.2017 is just middle europe dd.mm.yyyy notation - helps me keep track when I checked out via git. I actually prefer tarball releases but the homepage of kstars did not want to give a .tar.xz release there ... it only said to use git, which I did. There used to be tarball source releases in the past though such as ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.14.3/src/kstars-4.14.3.tar.xz - I know that because I keep track in my ruby programs of source files... but this is an aside, this report is about TZrules.dat, not anything else really. :D Use cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr and it should work OK. |
Hello kstars developers, kstars can not find the file TZrules.dat I compiled kstars with this "AppDir" prefix: /Programs/Kstars/23.09.2017/ That means that this is similar to /usr/ as prefix, just another prefix in use. Upon starting kstars, a popup message shows up and says that it could not find the file TZrules.dat. This widget also showed where it was looking, aka the paths - this is by the way, very helpful to me, because that way I could instantly verify that the path is not there. And indeed, it is not. I was able to easily solve this by symlinking from: /Programs/Kstars/23.09.2017/share/kstars/TZrules.dat Into any of the directories that the widget told me (I picked my home dir because that is the easiest for me to memorize actually). Anyway, I am not sure if you guys want to fix this because from the 0.001% of the world population, I guess only 0.00000000001% may ever run into this. :D HOWEVER had, it should also be trivial to fix, too, so perhaps because it is so trivial to fix, it could be fixed. Several ways are possible, I suggest a simple one, to simply add the path that was picked via prefix (in cmake this is DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=) to the paths that kstars will check by default. This check can be omitted perhaps if the prefix is /usr ... perhaps even /usr/local but for any other paths, including /opt, I would recommend to automatically include PREFIX_TARGET/share/kstars/ since that is where that .file will reside. Thanks for reading anyway, please do feel free to close this issue at any moment in time. By the way, awesome application - I hope you guys can keep on it. While I am not even a hobbyist dude in regards to, well, the universe, I think it's kind of cool - a bit like google map, of course except that mankind can not (yet) walk on the remote stars. I hope you can remain motivated with kstars!