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OK, I finally got it to build under Opensuse 11.1 64-bit. When I installed the X11-devel package/pattern group, the "missing zlib" complaint went away. As a matter of fact, I got that from a hint in another thread from t00fri, I do believe. :) Note that your flavor of Linux might package t...

OK, now that I've had a little sleep, a few points that I left out. As alluded to, I'm building Celestia 1.6 on CentOS (which is similar to Red Hat Enterprise) 5.3, 64 bit. When I first tried configure, it stopped at "Zlib not found." As per some advice I saw at the LinuxQuestions forum wh...

I first ran into this when compiling Celestia on Opensuse 11.1, 32-bit. I installed zlib-devel and still got the error. A Web search showed that I needed a "Perl-Compress" library, so I installed that ... and maybe some X11 libraries (I can't remember now), and it finally stopped giving me...

Thanks for the responses. That actually makes sense -- I had completely ignored the radiation pressure from the protostar when it ignites. I can picture it now, at least well enough to proceed.

I hope that one of the geniuses here can help me wrap my brain around this. You start with a protoplanetary disk (a "Bok" globule or something like it). It eventually contracts to form a star in the center, and planets form in "resonant" orbits around that star. This much I under...