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

["Robin Callender" <robin_callender@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just out of curiosity, has anyone run some of the standard Windows satellite 
tracking software under Linux + Wine (Windows Emulator)?

I was going to try this on a newly installed Fedora Core 3 system, but I 
can't seem to find Wine in this verion of the Fedora 3 distro.
(At this point I am assuming some operator error as it was in previous 
version of RedHet distros)

Robin, KE7ARL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James C. Hall MD" <heartdoc@nwtcc.com>
To: "John Heaton" <John@manchester.ac.uk>
Cc: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Graphical Satellite Tracking with Linux


> John Heaton wrote:
>
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>> On 14 Jun, 2005, at 23:26, Mike Lewis wrote:
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>>>    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?
>>
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>> I don't run Fedora or any other DeadRat system, but have compiled Gsat to 
>> run on several boxes, including Debian (woody), Debian (sarge), SuSE 7.2, 
>> SuSE 9.1 and even on my Apple Mac with Mac OS-X.
>>
>> As it has already been said to compile Gsat (or many other graphic based 
>> tools) on Linux/OS-X etc.. you will need the gtk development package 
>> which doesn't normally get installed.
>>
>> Once you have Predict running in server mode (with the -s switch), you 
>> can run Gsat on the same box or anywhere with a network connection to the 
>> server.  Gsat is a nice graphical display, and miles better than the 
>> standalone mtrack but I tend to just run Predict (my version of course) 
>> and simple text mode clients.
>>
>> John
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>> http://voyager.mcc.ac.uk/Predict/
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> Hello:
>
> I think what's missing is the libgtk2.0-dev files.  There are a million 
> dev files for all sorts of gtk files associated with other things such as 
> gimp. But I think this is the one that should work.
>
> 73, Jamie
> WB4YDL
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