wxAstroCapture - Windows and linuX Astronomy Capture

wxAstroCapture installation - Linux (.rpm)

To get wxAstroCapture up and running on SuSE 10.2 there are a couple of things you need to do.

wxAstroCapture uses wxWidgets, so that must be installed before you can install wxAstroCapture. Please see How to install wxWidgets on SUSE
Download and install the wxastrocapture-x.y-z.i386.rpm.tar.gz file from the download section, extract and install the .rpm using Yast. You should now have a working wxAstroCapture program!

Now that you have the program up and running, you may also want to consult the instructions for
enabling long exposures via parallel port.

Enabling LX control under SuSE Linux

LX control via the parallel port requires user access to /dev/parport0. Ubuntu creates /dev/parport0 with user access under group 'lp'. Recent versions of SuSE Linux do not create /dev/parport0. The following steps are required:

1. As root, go to Yast-System-/etc/sysconfig, then under System+Kernel+MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT, add 'ppdev'. On rebooting, /dev/parport0 will be available, but only with root permissions.

2. As root, edit the file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules to add the line:

KERNEL=="parport*", NAME="%k", GROUP="lp"

This file contains a warning that changes will be overwritten if the system is updated, but ignore this.

On rebooting, any user with membership of group 'lp' will have access to /dev/parport0.

3. As root, check for user access to group 'lp' via Yast-Security and Users-User Management. If 'lp' isn't present for the user, select Edit-Details-Groups. Then check 'lp' and Accept. On restarting KDE (or Gnome), user access to /dev/parport0 will be allowed.

Note: Most recent versions of Linux use udev to dynamically create/manage device files, so any changes that are made manually (eg 'chgrp lp /dev/parport0') will be lost on shutdown/reboot.

-- Ken Hough, 11-Jan-2008 (thanks Ken!)