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Dear Sirs: I have followed your instructions and now I have version 1.6.0 installed and running from the SVN trunk. Or so it says in the "Help - About". I had to install the automaker facility and I have run the build-dep for celestia as instructed in the wiki page mentioned in your post. ...

I see the discussion moved into more specialized areas. I do not have the skills to do this "hacking" on the sourceforge distribution tar file, even if it seems simple (is it really just a matter of one missing include for cstudio?) But if this version 1.6.0 does not really compile with th...

I did not try to install the "xorg-dev" with synaptic yet, but anyway, now the problem changed to a make error, for the configure now runs to the end, with the following message: *************************************************************** ** Celestia configuration complete. Now do a 'm...

Weeeell, still no success, but a quick update. It seams this is a old problem when compiling in a number of Linux OS, not just with Ubuntu. The "zlib not found" message is misleading, because that is not the problem. I have tried an old remedy, installing the libcompress-zlib-perl library,...

Remember you need the -dev versions of the libraries to do the compilation, i.e. for zlib this would be zlib1g-dev. Thanks for the quick answer. As I am a newbie also to Ubuntu and this compiling stuff, I really overlook the development library for zlib1g. But even with that library installed, it d...

Dear members of the Celestia forum: I am new to this wonderfull application, and I managed to install the 1.5.1 version into my Ubuntu (Karmic Koala version) laptop. For this, I have used the Synaptic package manager. However, I knew about the new 1.6.0 version and tried to install it from the sourc...