INSTALLATION NOTES AURORA FORECAST R LINUX

STEP 1
Download the AuroraForecastR.tar.gz to a directory on your 
Linux computer. 

https://aurora.unis.no/Software/AuroraForecastR/Linux/AuroraForecastR.tar.gz

Un-compress the file in a terminal window:

tar -xzvf AuroraForecastR.tar.gz

(Compress command is tar -czvf AuroraForecastR.tar.gz AuroraForecastR)

The local directory AuroraForecastR should now exist.
Then go into the directory and type

./AuroraForecastR

Note!
The app creates a directory for all the files it needs in your 
Documents folder. 

Remove this directory if you are upgrading the program.

Run the app from the terminal before the next step. 

STEP2
If you want it to be visible on your desktop, make a text file 
named: AuroraForecastR.desktop and enter 8 lines as below:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/home/aurora/AuroraForecastR/AuroraForecastR
Name=Aurora Forecast Rocketeer
Icon=/home/aurora/Documents/AuroraForecastR/ICON64x64.png

NB!
Note the Exec and Icon path must be correct for your system!

Then copy the file to /usr/share/applications/ directory by 
the command

sudo cp AuroraForecastR.desktop /usr/share/applications/

STEP 3
Have Fun!

Note that Text-to-Speech functionality does not work in Linux yet.

Fred Sigernes JW5JUA (freds@unis.no)
Longyearbyen, 10.07.2023