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I am trying to get hold of a startextdump binary that works under either Debian stretch or Wine. Don't mind which. The handful of pointers I have found are so old the links are broken. Celestia itself is behaving perfectly, but I can't find [either of these tools]
Can anyone help out?
Thank you very much.

Hi Simons Mith,

Have you tried to compile them on your own? See src/tools/stardb directory in celestia sources.

Tried, yes, succeeded, no. I dealt with the first two compilation errors but then hit
"Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!"

As Qt <4.0 is ancient history I gave up at that point.

Haven't looked at John V.V.'s QT5 build yet, because it seemed to still be a work in progress.

However, if I did manage to compile that version successfully, would I get these extra tools?
Do I need to compile in debug mode or anything?

The downloadable executables I've found don't appear to include either file.

You don't need to use configure for these tools, actually they don't have a Makefile for Unices. I'll try to create one in a few days.

Hi Simons,

I've built these tools on Debian stretch compatible system. They should be installed into /opt/celestia, just unpack tar.xz in '/'. Or you can install them wherever you want if you know how to amend/remove rpath

Grab the tarball from here.

Thanks, I'm starting to use it now.