astroterm mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• astroterm

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in June 2023 and the README describes astroterm as a terminal-based star map written in C. Its first stable GitHub release, v1.0.0, was published in January 2025, with release notes calling it the first stable release and listing work such as embedded BSC5 data, improved help, constellations, and infrastructure improvements.

The project is intentionally small and terminal-native. Its build docs use Meson and Ninja, ncurses, argtable2, and a downloaded Bright Star Catalog data file; later releases added packaging instructions and shell niceties such as bash completions.

Adoptionsgeschichte

astroterm moved quickly from source build to distribution packages. Its README documents installation through Arch Linux, Fedora, Homebrew, Nix, Guix, and prebuilt GitHub release binaries for Unix and Windows. The input package facts also show apk, dnf, pacman, zypper, brew, nix, and other ecosystem package names.

The package's appeal is obvious in terminal culture: it gives a visual, animated, data-backed result from a single command, and package managers can make the dependency chain boring enough for casual use.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run astroterm directly, often with flags for latitude, longitude, city, datetime, magnitude threshold, frames per second, animation speed, color, Unicode, Braille, constellation lines, grids, and metadata. The README examples include animated, colored constellation views for named cities.

There is no official persistent config file documented in the README or contributing guide. Runtime behavior is controlled through command-line options, and shell completions can be sourced from astroterm --bash-completions.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

astroterm is package-manager candy: small C source, terminal UI, real data, prebuilt release assets, and enough distro uptake to be discoverable from normal install commands. It is the kind of package that makes a CLI catalog feel alive without bringing a service dependency or user account.

It also shows a modern path for tiny native tools: GitHub Actions, Meson, distro recipes, Repology badges, and release binaries combine to turn a niche terminal visualization into something available across Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Zeitleiste

• 2023-06-16: The GitHub repository was created.
• 2025-01-08: v1.0.0 was published as the first stable release.
• 2026-04-01: v1.2.0 was published with fixes and packaging/documentation improvements.

Related projects

• The Bright Star Catalog data is used as an embedded star data source.
• ncurses provides the terminal display layer.
• Meson and Ninja are the documented build tools.

Quellen

• https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm#readme
• https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
• https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm/releases/tag/v1.0.0
• https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm/releases/tag/v1.2.0