Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

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Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #1by SiriusCG » 08.03.2009, 17:07

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?

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Post #2by ElChristou » 08.03.2009, 17:17

I wasn't aware of this and indeed that seems to be odd as 1.6 is in dev and tested on all platforms... :?
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Post #3by ajtribick » 08.03.2009, 17:21

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.

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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #4by ElChristou » 08.03.2009, 17:24

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?
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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #5by selden » 08.03.2009, 19:00

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
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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #6by SiriusCG » 08.03.2009, 19:27

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

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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #8by duds26 » 10.03.2009, 20:55

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
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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #9by selden » 10.03.2009, 22:03

Hopefully ChrisL will have a chance to do that soon.
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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #10by LordFerret » 12.03.2009, 17:04

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.

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Re: Celestia for LINUX lagging behind?

Post #11by SiriusCG » 22.03.2009, 14:14

@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... :wink:


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