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Gpredict Download Info

Currently, I can only guarantee installation support for source package, although binary packages may be available from third parties. Brief installation instructions and notes are given below. Please also study the documents available in the source package.

Shortcuts: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Suse, Mandriva, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows.

Source Package

The latest source distribution can be downloaded from the SourceForge download area.

Unpack the source package with:

     tar -xvfz gpredict-x.y.z.tar.gz

Change to the gpredict-x.y.z directory and build gpredict:

     ./configure
     make
     make install

The last step usually requires you to become root, otherwise you may not have the required permissions to install gpredict. If you can not or do not want to install gpredict as root, you can install gpredict into a custom directory by adding --prefix=somedir to the ./configure step.

If the configure step fails with an error, examine the output. It will usually tell you which package or libraries you need in order to build gpredict. Please note, the you also need the so-called development packages. In many GNU/Linux systems you can just install the GNOME Development stuff, but I would recommend to just install everything if you can (except if you are running Debian ;-).

The network support (automatic TLE update) requires cURL and libcurl. It is available for all Linux distribution that I know of.

If you encounter any show-stoppers, feel free to ask for help, see User Support.

Debian Packages

Hamish Mofatt is kind enough to maintain debian packages for gpredict. The latest versions of Gpredict are usually available on testing and unstable. If not, you can check this page for status.

Ubuntu

There are native Ubuntu packages for gpredict, but they may not be quite up to date. You may want to try the debian package instead.

Fedora Core

Gpredict is available Fedora Core, see the status here. Thanks to Denis Leroy for packaging.

Suse Linux

No recent info available. You can try the Fedora RPM.

Mandriva

No recent info available. You can try the Fedora RPM.

BSD

Gpredict is available from freshports.

Mac OS X

Mac OS X/Darwin packages as well as instructions on how to build gpredict on Mac OS X is available from The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group. Many thanks to Marius Schamschula for providing this information.

Windows

There is now a native windows build available at the download site. It should work fine on WinXP. Simply unpack the gpredict-x.y.z-win32.zip file, go to the bin subdirectory and execute gpredict.exe. You can, of course, create a shortcut to the exe, just be sure that the Execute in parameter points to the bin subdirectory.

Needless to say, the windows build has not been extensively tested, at least not by me. If you find any bugs or strange behaviour, please submit it vie the bug tracker on the project page, or send an email to the mailing list. See User Support for more info on how to get in touch with us.