I'm building a new computer for kstars and I have installed Mint 17.1. I can't seem to find the PPA's to install kstars-bleeding from though. I went to the support/tutorial section and it gave me this:
Ok, so Ubuntu it is... I saw the new mint release and thought it was based on 14.10 which lead me to my problems .. but i see that they are sticking with the LTS version for stability.
Thanks for the clairity, and as always, you guys do amazing work!
May be I should open a separate topic... but I will write it here Right now I have a hybrid system (Mint 17.1 and Kubuntu 14.10). I upgraded from Mint 17 (oh... that was a little bit painful!). Running KDE 4.14.2. I added the PPA repos, all 3, and installed kstars-bleeding. But got into trouble - it was saying it is unable to find citydb.sqlite. Running from terminal gave me the clue about the problem - I needed to install libqt5sql5-sqlite. I think it must be added as a dependency.
P.S. Btw, who is maintaining the city list DB? I want to see Chisinau there!
P.P.S. Another missing dependency - gsc (needed for CCD Simulator). But considering its size may be it is ok to make it just optional...
The GUI pop-up was saying it's not found, but in terminal I could see the real cause of the problem - file exists but couldn't be opened because of the lack of the SQLite module.
I am having the same prpblem with Linux Mint Tara. I try to install Kstars. Everything goes well but when i launch the program i get the same citydb error. But when I run kstars from command line I see the file is there but it can’t find the qsqllite driver.
Lou Zyla