Celestia Forums

Hi to all,
I've recently installed the latest version of Kubuntu(v7.04 Fiesty Fawn) in a daul-boot configuration with my Windows XP Professional OS.

I am impressed with the distrobution,but here is my question:

I've enjoyed compiling the latest CVS version of Celestia in Windows.
I was wondering if I can do the same thing on my Linux distrobution,can anybody give me any pointers? I'm using Cervisia as my CVS client.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

In general, you would have to go to the directory with your CVS checkout and type:

You will need several development packages ("*-dev") for building Celestia, configure will tell you if there is something missing in your installation.

steffens

Hi steffens,
I'd like to thank you very much for your advice.
Here's what I did,I did a CVS checkout with Cervisia and it updated Celestia to the latest files.Then I opened a terminal window on the celestia folder and typed in the first string of code from your reply and I got this:


Would you(or anybody)can give me some advice about this one?

Regards,
Nightcast2000

Maybe you are not in the right folder?
The file "Makefile.cvs" should be there right in the root folder of the CVS checkout. Have a look here:
http://celestia.cvs.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia/
how your CVS checkout should look like. Start from this folder and everything should be ok.

steffens

Hi Steffens,
Thank you very much for the advice.I looked in my CVSROOT and found I was in the wrong directoy ,oh well.

On a positive side,I opened konsole on the correct folder and managed to compile celestia.Curiously,when I ran the executable produced(the blue cog in /home/steve/Desktop/CVSROOT/celestia),I got this error:

Something seems to be wrong with your installation of Celestia. The splash screen directory couldn't be found.
Start-up will continue, but Celestia will probably be missing some data files and may not work correctly, please check your installation.

Is there a log file I can upload to see what went wrong?I'm not sure where to find it.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

Hi to all,
I've just tried re-compiling the latest version of CVSCelestia,to see if I could fix the problem I had earlier.

Here's what I did,I opened a konsole window,and ran these commands:




I'm very sorry for the long output,if someone can show me how to upload a compressed text file would be apprieceated.

Regards,
Nightcast2000
Here is the output I got from konsole:

Obviously you got a problem with lua-5.1. So either you deactivate lua for now and see whether the rest compiles. Or you make sure that both the lua header files and the lua-5.1 lib are are found by the compiler.

Certainly, something is missing in your installation. I compile Celestia on a daily basis with lua-5.1 under Linux.

Since I cannot look over "your shoulder" most of this is guesswork, of course.

By Fridger

Hi t00fri,
Thanks for the advice,I did try and compile the latest version of lus(which is 5.1.2 at the moment).The reason I did that was because Celestia was complaining that lua5.1 wasn't installed on my system.

I have tried compiling Celestia without lua,but I was still getting errors
Regards,
Nightcast2000

NIGHTCAST2000 wrote:On a positive side,I opened konsole on the correct folder and managed to compile celestia.Curiously,when I ran the executable produced(the blue cog in /home/steve/Desktop/CVSROOT/celestia),I got this error:

Something seems to be wrong with your installation of Celestia. The splash screen directory couldn't be found.
Start-up will continue, but Celestia will probably be missing some data files and may not work correctly, please check your installation.

You really need to install Celestia using to get it working.

steffens

Hi guys,
I believe I have solved my problem,here's what I did.
I deleted the Celestia folder I was using and then I used Cervisia to do a CVS checkout to get the latest fresh copy of Celestia.

After Cervisia downloaded it for me,I opened a konsole window and typed make -f Makefile.cvs,then ./configure --with-kde,then make and finally sudo make install(I ran the last command twice just to be sure)

I then went to K-menu,Run Command,and typed in celestia in the dialogue box I typed celestia and viola! the splash screen came up!

Interestingly,the splash screen displayed Celestia 1.4.1,but my Windows CVS version of Celestia comes up with 1.5.1.

Just one more question,what would be the best way of adding Celestia to the K-menu? I don't fancy having to use Run Command all the time.

I would like to thank Steffens and tr00fi for their help.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

By default, that is if you didn't use specify the --prefix option when running ./configure, Celestia is installed in /usr/local. Chances are that your system is not configured for KDE applications to be installed there.

You need to add the following lines to your .bashrc file:


Then log off and back on again. Now when running celestia from the mini-cli the correct version should come up and Celestia should appear in your start menu.

Note as well that I provide deb packages of the current CVS for Ubuntu.

Hi Christophe,
I'd like to thank you for the info.I did a search for the .bashrc using Konqueror.However I'm a little confused,because Konqueror showed four entries for .bashrc,
one in /etc/bash.bashrc,
one in /etc/skel/.bashrc,
one in /home/steve/.bashrc,
and the last one in /root/.bashrc.

I had put the code into the bottom of /etc/bash.bashrc,(I made sure I put a return space between the code that is in there and the code you have given me in your post).

I then logged out and in again and looked in the various menus in the K-panel,but alas Celestia wasn't in there(but a few more apps which I have installed have appeared).

I hope someone can tell me which correct .bashrc location I should put the code in.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

Normaly you would add this to your own .bashrc, that's the one in your home directory, but adding it to /etc/bash.bashrc should be fine too.

/etc/bash.bashrc is the system-wide bash configuration file as indicated in its header. It applies to all users, so to your user aswell.

/etc/skel/.bashrc is the new users default .bashrc, it gets copied to a newly created user's home directory.

/home/steve/.bashrc and /root/.bashrc are the .bashrc of users steve and root respectively.

If 'make install' worked, it should have created the following file: /usr/local/share/applnk/Edutainment/Science/celestia.desktop
which is the link to celestia which should appear in your KDE menu under Edutainment/Science. Then if KDEDIRS is correctly set (you can check that by running "echo $KDEDIRS" in konsole) KDE should find it and you should see the entry in the menu.

Hi Christophe,
I've read your post and I've checked that
/usr/local/share/applnk/Edutainment/Science/celestia.desktop does exist
in that directory using Konqueror.I have also added the same code from my /etc/bash.bashrc into the /home/steve/.bashrc file aswell.

I have tried echo $KDEDIRS in konsole and got this output:


I have even installed kstars using adept package manager to create the
Edutainment menu and did a re-start,but alas,celestia still doesn't appear in that menu.

I hope that helps.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

Hi guys,
Here's an update,I had a look at the Kubuntu forum to see how I could manually add Celestia to the menu.I had discovered all I had to do was to right-click on the K-panel,and selected the Menu editor.
From the Menu Editor dialogue box,I navigated through the menu tree on the left: Edutaimnet>Science,then right-clicked on science and selected
New Item.I gave the new item the title Celestia and clicked ok.
In the right-hand pane of the K-menu dialogue box,I clicked on the folder icon next to command and navigated to where celestia.desktop is located.I also left-clicked icon panel and selected the celestia icon on the list.I then clicked on save,and KDE updated itself.

I have also updated KDE to the latest version (which is 3.5.7 at mo)to see if the latest bug-fixes would solve my problem.

But sadly it hasn't,I select celestia form the K-menu but nothing happens.
I try to launch celestia from run command and I get this message:

Interestingly,if I navigate to celestia.desktop using Konqueror and left-click on it,Celestia fires up as normal.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

You should enter "celestia" as the command to execute, not the "celestia.desktop", which is a kind of a link to the application, containing the command, a description and an icon.

steffens

Hi Steffens,
I've looked at your last post and followed your advice.
I right-clicked on the K-panel and selected the menu editor again.

I then navigated to where celestia is on the start-up menu.
I then cleared out the path pointing to clelestia.desktop in the command box and relpaced it with just celestia and saved my changes.

KDE then updated it's system settings,I then closed menu-editor and left-clicked on the K-panel and scrolled up to celestia on the menu proper.

When I selected celestia on the menu,HORAY!!! Celestia loads up as normal!!

Thank you very much to all those that have been helping me with my problem.

Regards,
Nightcast2000

I have a slight problem,I've just done a CVS checkout with Cervisia using the string:

In my Repository Dialogue Box and waited for the latest Celestia to download.

After it had finished downloading,I navigated to the celestia folder in CVSROOT and opened a Konsole window on the folder.
Here is the code output I got:


I'm not sure what has happened here.

Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000

I guess you need to install the gconf2 development package (libgconf2-dev).

steffens

Thank you very much,I read your post and installed Gconf2-dev.
I tried :

and celestia did install successfully.

However,the command did give some strange output before it finished,
here it is:

I was wondering if this was normal.

Regards,
NIGHTCAST2000