The Debian package is available to enable automatic installation using apt-get.
First, become root or use sudo on each command.
Add Patrick Chevalley's signature to APT:
wget -q http://www.ap-i.net/pub/patrick_chevalley.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list
to add the following line:
deb http://www.ap-i.net/deb/ skychart/
Then refresh your package list, from a command line type:
apt-get update
The pre-requisite software are normally automatically installed. If not, check you have the packages libgtk2.0-0, libglib2.0-0, libpango1.0-0, libjpeg62, libpng12-0, libsqlite3-0
Also install Xplanet if you want to show the planets pictures and Indi to drive your telescope:
apt-get install xplanet indi
and install the software:
apt-get install skychart
and if you have plenty of space:
apt-get install skychart-pictures
That's all, exit the root shell and type skychart to run the program.