Efraim Yawitz writes:
> Why is kstars no longer part of Scientific Linux?  I'm still using 5.4
> which has this wonderful and small planetarium program.  Why was it
> removed from later versions?

doesn't directly answer your question, but I use xephem: but have had to
roll my own rpm for many releases now.  Just compiling a new version now
as I use it for my intro astronomy course (for making current starfields
etc for my lectures).

Over time, non-core programs come and go from TUV repository, which
composes 99% of all the packages in SL, and which the SL maintainers
have no control.  You can find many of the things you'd like in a
supplemental repository like EPEL (unfortunately, neither kstars nor
xephem): if there's a critical mass of people who want the the thing.
But sometimes you just gotta do the old fashioned thing and compile it
yourself :(

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