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Thanks selden for the explanation. So I installed lua and lua-devel and downloaded the celestia source package from the University of Kent. Problem with configure - ran into trouble with all the guis except GLUT. Could not determine if it was a path problem or library mismatches. Compiled with g++ w...

Another newbie question. I am a bit confused by some of the documentation on scripting. Trying to run a .celx script, e.g. celestia scripts/HuygensMissionTour.celx but this returns an error about a malformed script, missing the initial parenthesis {. So it looks as if lua scripts cannot be executed ...

Thanks Christophe. There was already an invalid link in /usr/share/apps voila: celestia -> ../../../home/mandrake/rpm/tmp/celestia-1.4.1-3mdv2007.0-buildroot/usr/share/celestia That seems to be an error in the build. It did not happen in earlier releases of Mandriva. I followed your suggestion and i...

Forever for a Linux version I expect...

Hi folks Have just returned to Celestia after a long absence. Running 1.4.1 on Mandriva 2007. A minor irritation is the error message which comes up on startup; it tells me that there is something wrong with the installation because it cannot find the splash directory. There is a splash directory in...