Request: Maitreya's Dream

OK, so the Dapper requests in Launchpad don't seem to be open yet....

I'd like to see some astrology software more sophisticated than 'astrolog' available for Ubuntu, and Maitreya's Dream has a good reputation.

Maitreya 5.0 is quite good in my opinion....it is available at http://saravali.de/maitreya/

There is a Windows version compiled, or you can download source code for Ubuntu.

It has both Western and Vedic capabilities, and is customizable. Try it!

Have fun!

hello...

i had success w/ maitreya 4.1 in feisty but now that i have hardy heron, i just keep getting an errno2 code when i try 'make' on maitreya 5 -- i think something about a GUI issue. then i saw something about this on a *china* ubuntu site but i couldnt understand.

anyway, i tried 2 reinstall maitreya 4.1 but i get that same error code.

any advice?

thx...

ERRO LOG (MAITREYA 5) $ ./configure

Configuration successful!

General options Directory : /usr/local/maitreya Debugging : false

wxWidgets options wx version : 2.8.7 wx-config : /usr/bin/wx-config

You can type 'make' now

$ make

How to Start ------------ You can start the program with the following commands cd src/gui ./maitreya

$ cd src/gui $ ./maitreya Fatal Error: stat failed, errno is 2

I have no idea what the error 2 is. I go to the usr/local/bin directory and click on the shortcut to Maiteya which should be there.

I am running Maitreya 5.0 on Hardy. It was hit and miss (mostly miss) for a while, but I found that if I compile WXWidgets myself with "./configure-- enable unicode" then everything ran smoothly after that. I believe the package manager does not enable unicode for WxWidgets.

See: http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian

Download it to a folder you can use exclusively or create one. Unpack wxwidgets and read the .dsc file. Get everything listed in the dependencies, then compile WxWidgets with the "./configure -- enable unicode". Don't forget to use the LDconfig command

Then compile Maitreya - should work.

This probably is not very intellectual or economical in terms of file space, but it works.

Let me know how it goes......

[SIZE="4"]first off: many thx :KS[/SIZE]

when i initially attempted installation, i did enable unicode according 2 this page, then did make ~ like so:

$./configure --enable-unicode $make

my issue stemmed from failing 2 understand -- since 4.1 let me get away from dealing w/ unicode (my bad) -- i incorrectly installed maitreya truetype font. i mistakenly put it in .font [local font] instead of usr/share/fonts/truetype

so i had 2 copy my newly downloaded 'MaitreyaSymbols.ttf' (located in ../src/fonts) 2 '/usr/share/fonts.' then flush font cache so it would take. [B] $sudo cp MaitreyaSymbols.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype $sudo fc-cache -f -v[/B]

after i did that i could do: $sudo make install

then actually run it according 2 their INSTALL file;)

You can start the program with the following commands

cd src/gui ./maitreya

[B]$ cd src/gui $ ./maitreya[/B] Creating config directory /home/myAccount/.maitreya5 for the first time ... Creating view directory /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/view for the first time ... Copy file /usr/local/maitreya/locations.dat to /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/locations.dat Copy file /usr/local/maitreya/view/VedicComprehensive.view to /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/view/VedicComprehensive.view Copy file /usr/local/maitreya/view/WesternSimple.view to /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/view/WesternSimple.view Copy file /usr/local/maitreya/view/VedicSimple.view to /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/view/VedicSimple.view Copy file /usr/local/maitreya/view/VedicBhava.view to /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/view/VedicBhava.view Copy file /usr/local/maitreya/view/Midpoint.view to /home/myAccount/.maitreya5/view/Midpoint.view

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