[Kstars-devel] Installing the USNO NOMAD catalog excerpt

[Ronn! Blankenship]

Hi,

I recently downloaded and installed KDE 4.3.3* on a box running 
Windows XP SP3, and discovered kstars v. 1.5.3.  I have tried at 
least four times to install the USNO NOMAD catalog excerpt (all of 
the other add-ons installed the first time without problems).  The 
progress bar goes all the way to 100% then clears, then the add-on 
installer pop-up window gets busy for awhile (iow, if the cursor is 
placed within that window it becomes a tumbling hourglass), then . . 
. nothing.  The "Install" button still shows a blue check mark, but 
if I click on it another pop-up appears that says "Cannot install 
USNO NOMAD catalog (part)."  Clearing that pop-up and pressing that 
"Install" button again results in the whole process starting 
over.  Any suggestions**?

BTW, when I ran kstars for the first time and during the setup 
process noticed that the default location is Greenville, South 
Carolina I wondered if the program might had been developed at Furman 
University, home of the Astronomical Workshop that publishes the 
annual Astronomical Calendar . . . ?

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*After a couple of mentions of it from different sources, I have been 
trying to get a working version of koffice to try krita, which does 
not seem to be included at all in the latest KDE release.  The 
version of koffice in this release apparently doesn't work on this 
box, either, so I may end up trying an even earlier release before I'm done.
**Short of digging out the CDs for the full USNO A2.0 and trying to 
find a way to get the program to use them, that is . . .


. . . ronn! :)

Ronn Blankenship
Sometime*** Adjunct Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL

(*** i.e., before health problems caused me to have to stop teaching)

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