[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         
-------------          -------------       ------------
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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