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Qtarot

Qtarot is a free Tarot reading/teaching tool for Linux (and will probably compile and run fine under other Unix family operating systems too). It is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. In order to run, you must also have the Qt toolkit installed, which is also now available under the GPL. Qtarot does not require KDE (personally, I use WindowMaker), but it does require Qt.

This is the version 0.25 release (so called because I estimate it to be 25% of the way towards a 1.0 release). Click the picture for screenshots. Some things work, some things don't, and there's no documentation to be found anywhere. Hopefully, the situation will improve in the future...

New with version 0.25: In addition to fixing bugs and improving the handling of HTML files, this release comes with two new decks! The Rider-Waite deck (which I technically never had permission to distribute) has been replaced by the Aquatic Tarot, a beautiful watercolor rendition of the A.E. Waite/Pamela Colman Smith deck. Also, the Silicon Valley Tarot is now included! Many thanks to Andreas Schröter and Thomas Scoville for allowing me to include their decks with my program. Also, full descriptions of each card are now available thanks to Samvado Gunnar Kossatz and the Colman-Smith Tarot project.

NOTE: Some people have reported problems compiling the program recently. This is usually related to the combination of GCC and Qt being used. If you are having trouble compiling from source, and your distribution recently upgraded to some version of GCC >= 3.0, try installing an older GCC (e.g. 2.95). Most distributions can have two different GCC's installed without problem. Then add "GCC = gcc-2.95" and "GXX = g++-2.95" to the top of the Makefile. This fixed the problem for me (under Debian/unstable).

qtarot-source.tar.gz: This is the source code. Downloading this is recommended. Don't forget to also grab tarot.tar.gz if you don't already have it! It won't do much without it...
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qtarot-binary.tar.gz: This is a precompiled binary, compiled under Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) i386 on 2001-05-17. The executable is provided as a convenience for those who don't have the Qt development header files installed and don't want to bother installing them and compiling the program themselves. You don't need this if you download the source, just "make" it yourself!
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tarot.tar.gz: This contains the "tarot" directory that must be located in your home directory when you run qtarot. It contains two decks, several cloths (backgrounds), and other assorted goodies. Warning: this file is BIG (over 6MB).
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If you would like to help out with this project, please feel free! I really need good descriptions of each card in HTML format with the image included. Better descriptions of spread positions with a picture would be nice too. More spreads would be nice. Another deck or two would be nice.

Then there are the ensembles. These are supposed to be deck/spread combinations where they'll be an HTML file describing each card in each position. That'll be a project in and of itself.

And of course, code improvements are always welcome.

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