[Kstars-devel] Re : Re : Hi, newbie feedback and questions

[Fabien]

Well, I've tried this on two places, at my work on a spare PC (with proxy settings) and at my home (direct access through ADSL)

At work it doesn't work at all, no way to configure the proxy, I've tried any possible way through the installer, and I won't download by hand each package to make this thing work.

At home, the installer connects, download about 100MB! (I've just checked kdeedu, no kstars alone available), Install freezed before the end (I don't know why). There is a KDE folder in my Program Files with 260MB in there which nothing working (I've tried severall .exe such as kstars).
So perhaps it is working on some other config but not mine, I do not want to give some time to make this huge thing working on XP and I think (I am probably wrong but it is my point of view as a user) that KDE is fine for Linux but it is not simple to make it works under XP. I find easier to run kstars on an XP computer using VirtualBox and Ubuntu than using kde-win-installer.

But apart from that, I am using KStars because it is fast, small, versatile and easy to use.


Regards
Fabien


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De : Médéric Boquien <mboquien at free.fr>
À : Fabien <pogzy at yahoo.com>
Cc : kstars-devel at kde.org; Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
Envoyé le : Vendredi, 18 Septembre 2009, 17h46mn 31s
Objet : Re: [Kstars-devel] Re :  Hi, newbie feedback and questions

On Friday 18 September 2009 11:40:37 Fabien wrote:
> I am sorry, I didn't know it was possible to run kstars on other platform
> than Linux. Where is the installer or KStars binary for Windows? ;-)

http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-
latest.exe

> Last time I tried KDE for Windows, I didn't get it to work, I think I am
> not smart enough to make it work and it should be reserved for advanced
> users.

That's quite straightforward. Just select the kdeedu package in the installer, 
wait a few minutes and that's it. KStars is in the windows menu.

> I don't wan't to put an entire KDE system on top of my Windows
> system which I find slow enough.

There is no need to install the enitre KDE system. Just the libs basically. 
The installer takes care of that anyway.

Regards,

Médéric



      
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