[Kst] Modfied README with more installation instructions...
Barth Netterfield
netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca
Sat Apr 14 02:20:58 CEST 2007
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This application is used to display scientific data.
When running configure, you may need to use the --prefix option to point to
the KDE install directory to ensure that the XML and desktop files are
picked up. Symptoms of an incorrect installation include missing menu
entries and inability to load and display data.
Package dependancies:
Compiling kst depends on the following packages (listed for two popular
distributions:)
Package openSuse 10.2 Kubuntu Edgy
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QT development qt3-devel libqt3-mt-dev
KDE Development kdelibs3-devel kdelibs4-dev
GSL Development gsl-devel libgsl0-dev
Additional libraries are needed for several of the data sources:
FITS based data sources: (LFIIO, HEALPix, WMAP)
cfitsio: http://heasarc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsio.html
On [k]ubuntu, you can install libcfitio-dev.
netCDF data source:
netCDF: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
On ubuntu you can install netdcfg-dev
CDF data source:
CDF: http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Please direct questions or concerns to kst at kde.org.
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