xtide-data-nonfree for Debian ----------------------------- These are _extra_ harmonic station data for the xtide package. XTide works fine without them using the xtide-data package, but this package adds non-free data for Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. There may be other TCD data files available at http://harmonics.unh.edu/xtide/files.html To use them, simply drop them in /usr/share/xtide The sources of this package include the same TCD file, rather than its sources, because that it how it is distributed. It is a transparent format that can be converted to plain text using the tcd-utils package, edited in TCD format using tideEditor[1] (as yet unpackaged) or built from an SQL data file[2] by installing Debian packages postgresql and libtcd0, building and installing the prerequisites congen[3] and libdstr[4], then building harmbase2[5] and running its included Debian.sh script, e.g.: [...weird path...]/Debian.sh harmonics-dwf-20070318 You should get harmonics-dwf-20070318-free.tcd and harmonics-dwf-20070318-nonfree.tcd. [1] tideEditor, http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#extras [2] harmonics*.sql, http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#harmonicsfiles [3] congen, http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#experts [4] libdstr, http://www.flaterco.com/util/index.html [5] hambase2, http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html#experts -- Peter S Galbraith , Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:49:02 -0400