{"id":4809,"date":"2021-02-07T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2021-04-08T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:37:20","slug":"pp3-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/pp3-ubuntu.html","title":{"rendered":"PP3 – Star Charts for Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compile it yourself<\/a>\n
- Compile PP3 and install it manually<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Uninstall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n\n\r\n
  PP3<\/a> is THE program to produce printable star charts in TeX, EPS or PDF format for LaTeX or word processors, even if it is not quite intuitive to use as a command line program.<\/p>\n
  Unfortunately, besides the source code for GNU\/Linux, it is only available as an RPM package. I have compiled the PP3 source of version 1.3.3 for 64-bit Intel GNU\/Linux and made it available in an easy-to-install DEB installer for Ubuntu and derivatives here.<\/p>\n
  <\/p>\n
  I built PP3 on Linux Mint 19.3 (amd64) and tested it on Ubuntu 20.04, too. It is compiled statically (-static) and may run on older versions but on newer versions for sure. It depends on the packages texlive<\/span> and texlive-pstricks<\/span>. These will be installed automatically if necessary.<\/p>\n
  Sample files, manuals and tutorials can be found at \/usr\/local\/share\/doc\/pp3\/<\/span>.<\/p>\n Download<\/span><\/a>\n
  Compile it yourself<\/h2>\n
  If you want to compile PP3 for yourself, all you need is a C++ compiler, like g++ and the program make. The easiest way to do this is with the command<\/p>\n
```
sudo apt install build-essential<\/pre>\nin the terminal.<\/p>\nCompile PP3 and install it manually<\/h3>\n\nDownload<\/a> and unpack.<\/li>\n
Fix error in the source code file pp3.cc<\/span>:\n\nOpen the file pp3.cc<\/span> in a text editor (e.g. Gedit).<\/li>\n
Go to line 8 and change #include <string><\/span> to #include <cstring><\/span>.<\/li>\n
Save pp3.cc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
Open a terminal window, go with into the root directory of PP3 (where the file pp3.cc is located), e.g. with:
\ncd ~\/Downloads\/pp3-1.3.3.<\/span><\/li>\n
Type the command make<\/span>. This should run without errors. A new executable file named pp3<\/span> should have been created. PP3 is compiled now.<\/li>\n
Move the pp3 executable to the \/usr\/local\/bin\/<\/span> directory:
\nsudo mv pp3 \/usr\/local\/bin\/<\/span><\/li>\n
Create the directory \/usr\/local\/share\/pp3<\/span>:
\nsudo mkdir \/usr\/local\/share\/pp3<\/span><\/li>\n
Move the data files with the extension *.dat<\/span> into the new directory:
\nsudo mv *.dat \/usr\/local\/share\/pp3\/<\/span><\/li>\nPP3 is now installed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nA TeX package has to be installed to run PP3 properly. Sample files are located in the examples folder. Manual and tutorials can be viewed or downloaded from the homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Uninstall<\/h2>\nRegardless of whether you installed PP3 manually or with the installer, you can uninstall it with the following commands:<\/p>\nsudo rm \/usr\/local\/bin\/pp3\r\nsudo rm -Rf \/usr\/local\/share\/pp3 \/usr\/local\/share\/doc\/pp3<\/pre>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/span> <\/a><\/li>
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