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Hi, I'm quite interested in pursuing some sort of coursework in this field, do any of you have first-hand experience either with schools you've gone to or know of good programs in the US? Also, what would be a good path, it seems there is an astronomy-astrophysics split. I'd be interested in analyzi...

abor- you're great, it worked perfectly i just pasted the write portion into our build script and it did it's thing. no more {prefix} in the executable anymore. thanks a ton

hi thanks abor. i tried that script i don't think i have it working right.. i'm going to take another look at it. thanks

hi, thanks for the help, guys :D looks like automake is at version 1.9.6-1.1, and autoconf is at version 2.60-1. compiled from celestia-1.4.1.tar.gz, using celestia-1.4.0-compile.patch and celestia-lua51.patch. i agree, it looks like {prefix} isn't getting translated to /usr somewhere. here's the re...

hi, i'm trying this in arch linux, and it's not working. it's a 64-bit build: $ celestia Cannot chdir to '${prefix}/share/celestia', probably due to improper installation. (celestia:13618): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion `width >= -1' failed ./configure was...

i can confirm that this works perfectly for this problem on SuSE 10.1 x86_64. I can now view moons that I couldn't see before. (Phobos, Deimos, Amalthea..) thanks much! That looks like the same warnings I was getting. I just passed the CXXFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing to ./configure When I tried Boux's...

thanks i figured put them in medres then you don't have to select "R" every time it works great, thanks

hi there.. i can't get .dds files to work on my suse 10.1 x64 box. i'm using an nvidia card which has the requisite openGL extension, found in help/openGL info. i'm using the autopackage version. put the .dds in /extras, and made a .ssc file. i right click on the planet and select the texture but al...