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I see that Celestia for Windows and Mac is currently 1.5.1 while for a LINUX install is at 1.4.1. I was simply curious why? Is there a lack of maintainer for the LINUX version?

Cheers.

I wasn't aware of this and indeed that seems to be odd as 1.6 is in dev and tested on all platforms...

See the download page. The Linux version supplied is v1.4.1. On the other hand many distros supply more up-to-date versions, and compiling the source isn't difficult at all once you've figured out the dependencies.

ajtribick wrote:See the download page. The Linux version supplied is v1.4.1. On the other hand many distros supply more up-to-date versions, and compiling the source isn't difficult at all once you've figured out the dependencies.

Yep I checked and it's why I say it's odd... I guess there is a good reason for this... Chris? Pat? Fridger?

Presumably Chris forgot to update that link when v1.5.1 came out.

I always send people directly to the SourceForge download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21302

All of the kits there are v1.5.1

Thx guys... I grabbed the source and will play around a bit with it on my Debian partition...

Cheers!

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selden wrote:Presumably Chris forgot to update that link when v1.5.1 came out.

I always send people directly to the SourceForge download page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/

All of the kits there are v1.5.1

Then could you please remove: "Version 1.4.1"

It isn't mentioned with windows or Mac.

And change the url from the Linux binary to this one:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/Celestia-linux/<- wanted link
Instead of:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=celestia&filename=celestia-gtk-1.4.1.x86.package&use_mirror=freefr<- current link

Hopefully ChrisL will have a chance to do that soon.

SiriusCG wrote:Thx guys... I grabbed the source and will play around a bit with it on my Debian partition...

Cheers!

I'm running Debian also (Etch). I downloaded the "celestia-1.5.1.x86.package" and used the Autopackage Software Installer to install it. Works just fine.

Note: assuming your configuration is default (like mine), user is your user name, mine for example is /home/alan... Once installed you'll find a hidden ".celestiarc" file in your home/user directory which contains some of the program defaults. You can use vim or other editor to change what you wish. The actual Celestia executable will be found in /home/user/.local/bin. The Celestia data files, and location of the extras folder which you'll want access to if you desire to install addons, will be found in /home/user/.local/share.

@LordFerret, thx for the tips, they are appreciated. Currently, I'm messing around to see if could embed a Ruby or Python interpreter in Celestia. I'm running a quad core AMD CPU and interested in seeing if I can some multi-threading, multi-core action going... I'm not too impressed with LUA's coroutine architecture right now and I needed another project to keep me busy...