RE: [amsat-bb] Graphical Satellite Tracking with Linux

["James C. Hall, MD" <heartdoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike:

I ran into the same thing. I'm running a Debian Sarge machine and it
happened to have gsat available to just apt-get install or just using
Synaptic. But if you have to compile from the item with Predict, it
complains about GTK. I'm definitely not a Linux guru and don't know a
symlink from a simian, but I'm sure it wants a specific GTK version. It's
version / dependency hell all over again. Debian makes it fairly easy with
its apt-get utility and will make sure about dependencies.  I understand
there is a movement to standardize some sort of installation utility across
distros.

I still haven't gotten xplanet to work with earthtrack2. It complains about
needing some sort of switch. Maybe someday ...

73, Jamie
WB4YDL

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-AMSAT-BB@amsat.org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@amsat.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Lewis
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:26 PM
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Graphical Satellite Tracking with Linux

Hi All:
    Does anyone here have a graphical sat track program running under 
Linux?  I'm running a 2.6 GHz Celeron PC with Fedora Core 3 and haven't 
been able to figure out how to get GSat compiled.  The GSat version is 
labeled 1.1.0 and came with a download of predict.  Predict compiled and 
seems to run fine.  When compiling GSat the configure program complains 
that it can't find GTK.  Using the package manager, I have installed the 
GNOME software development tools.  Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike K4MPL (ex KU4AD)
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