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The libnova Portfile 59526 2009-10-16 05:12:52Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: libnova
Version: 0.13.0
Category: science
Maintainers: gmail.com:jtomshine
Description: Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics Library
Long Description: libnova is a general purpose, double precision, Celestial Mechanics, Astrometry and Astrodynamics library. The intended audience of libnova is C / C++ programmers, astronomers and anyone else interested in calculating positions of astronomical objects or celestial mechanics. libnova is the calculation engine used by the Nova project and most importantly, is free software.
Homepage: http://libnova.sourceforge.net/
Platform: darwin
license LGPLv2
Master Sites: sourceforge
Checksums: md5 32f67b1ae28372582da7fe4e6f554dcd sha1 87ecd8e5c8c1510c17928e4681c319d12efec76f rmd160 fcaf9cf2553be4853364f84b4b77ebbd01abd99d

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/libnova
%  sudo port install libnova  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching libnova
--->  Verifying checksum for libnova
--->  Extracting libnova
--->  Configuring libnova
--->  Building libnova with target all

--->  Staging libnova into destroot

--->  Installing libnova

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using libnova with these commands:

%  man libnova
%  apropos libnova
%  which libnova
%  locate libnova

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