The Debian packages are available to enable automatic installation using aptitude or apt-get.

First, become root or use sudo on each command.

Add Patrick Chevalley's signature to APT:

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8B8B57C1AA716FC2

Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list to add the following line:

deb http://www.ap-i.net/apt stable main 

If you want more frequent update with the development version add the following line:

deb http://www.ap-i.net/apt unstable main

Form this point you can launch your preferred graphical package manager to search for „skychart”, or continue with the command line as describe below.

Then refresh your package list, from a command line type:

aptitude update

To install the software with all the prerequisite and the additional data files:

aptitude -r install skychart

To install only the minimal software without the prerequisite:

aptitude -R install skychart

The prerequisite software are normally automatically installed. If not, check you have the packages libgtk2.0-0, libglib2.0-0, libpango1.0-0, libjpeg62, libpng12-0, libsqlite3-0, xplanet, indi

That's all, exit the root shell and type skychart to run the program.