Does not load with Suse 9.2

[BL Wallace]

I had Celestia running with Suse 9.0. I recently upgraded to Suse 9.2. I tried to reinstall Celestia but it complianed about not having libpng.so.2. I have libpng.so.3.1.2.6 installed as part of regular 9.2 distribution. I created a symlink of libpng.so.2 -> libpng.so.3.1.2.6 and Celestia installs showing all dependencies are met. When I run Celestia, nothing comes up. I can see the load icon bouncing for a bit but nothing starts.

[t00fri]

I had Celestia running with Suse 9.0. I recently upgraded to Suse 9.2. I tried to reinstall Celestia but it complianed about not having libpng.so.2. I have libpng.so.3.1.2.6 installed as part of regular 9.2 distribution. I created a symlink of libpng.so.2 -> libpng.so.3.1.2.6 and Celestia installs showing all dependencies are met. When I run Celestia, nothing comes up. I can see the load icon bouncing for a bit but nothing starts.

You forgot to tell us /which/ version of Celestia you installed under SuSE 9.2.

In SuSE 9.2., Celestia-1.3.2-2 is part of the distribution, while the 9.0 distribution contained Celestia-1.3.0-105. There is a /huge/ difference of development between these two Celestia versions.

Are you claiming that SuSE's Celestia-1.3.2 rpm as part of the 9.2 distribution does not work? Or did you try to reinstall your old Celestia version? Did you recompile Celestia or merely install the binary RPM?

In any case their Celestia-1.3.2-2.src.rpm was packaged (and patched) by SuSE not by one of us.

Before it makes sense to go on, you must become more precise about what you really did.

Bye Fridger

[Guest]

You're right, I didn't list the version. The version I was running was 1.3.1 (I believe; the RPM is actually celestia-kde-1.3.1-1.SuSE_8.x) and that is what I have tried to reinstall. With your information that it is part of 9.2, I have done a Install and Remove Software search through YaST for celestia and nothing comes up. If it is part of the distro, shouldn't I find it with this process? I also searched the 5 CD's I have and have not found a celestia rpm. Should I download 1.3.2 for Mandrake and install on SuSE 9.2? The sourceforge download for SuSE is still 1.3.1.

[t00fri]

You're right, I didn't list the version. The version I was running was 1.3.1 (I believe; the RPM is actually celestia-kde-1.3.1-1.SuSE_8.x) and that is what I have tried to reinstall. With your information that it is part of 9.2, I have done a Install and Remove Software search through YaST for celestia and nothing comes up. If it is part of the distro, shouldn't I find it with this process? I also searched the 5 CD's I have and have not found a celestia rpm. Should I download 1.3.2 for Mandrake and install on SuSE 9.2? The sourceforge download for SuSE is still 1.3.1.

celestia-kde-1.3.1-1.SuSE_8.x I have packaged for SourceForge. But this binary version would not run with the most recent SuSE based on the gcc 3.x compiler!

Why don't you simply install the binary 1.3.2-2 version SuSE packaged for their 9.2 distro. Then all the libs match and you will most probably have no problems whatsoever. In addition 1.3.2 is so much better than 1.3.1...

I looked at their patch. It only affects the gtk (-gnome) version of Celestia. So it should be fine.

If you dare compiling things yourself, you will become independent of all these different distros.

Bye Fridger

[BL Wallace]

I would like to install from binary, I just don't know where to get it? What specific file am I looking for. I've been perusing the CVS/Celestia site but don't understand what to do, or what to get.

Thanks

[t00fri]

I would like to install from binary, I just don't know where to get it? What specific file am I looking for. I've been perusing the CVS/Celestia site but don't understand what to do, or what to get.

Thanks

You told me that you have installed SuSE 9.2. So I suppose you have the SuSE DVD at your disposal. On that DVD you should find SuSE's packaged Celestia-1.3.2-2.rpm, since in the already published src section I could spot Celestia-1.3.2-2.src.rpm.

That's all. You don't need to go to SF anymore. Actually, for lack of time and other reasons I did not come around to package a Celestia-1.3.2 binary RPM on SF.

Bye Fridger

[BL Wallace]

I don't have the DVD - just 5 CD's. I've searched all 5 CD's and have not found celestia*.rpm.

[t00fri]

I don't have the DVD - just 5 CD's. I've searched all 5 CD's and have not found celestia*.rpm.

Then you must have some incomplete "clone", but certainly NOT SuSE 9.2 professional.
If you don't not have the original version, I am afraid I cannot help you. Here is the proof from their package listing:

http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/index_all.html

Version: 1.3.2
Release: 2
Medium: CD1
Path: /suse/i586/celestia-1.3.2-2.i586.rpm
Group: Productivity/Scientific/Astronomy
License: GPL
Size: 24.93 MB

You still could download the src.rpm and just compile it yourself. It is so simple...

Bye Fridger

[BL Wallacce]

Where can I get the src rpm? Novell doesn't list it as a download - they point to SF/Celestia and there isn't and rpm there.

Thanks

[t00fri]

Where can I get the src rpm? Novell doesn't list it as a download - they point to SF/Celestia and there isn't and rpm there.

Thanks

Here it is from a German mirror,

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.2/suse/src

but what kind of "funny" SuSE 9.2 did you install???

Bye Fridger

[BL Wallace]

It shouldn't be a "funny" source at all. I downloaded it from Novell's Intranet site. I used to be a consultant for them and still do contract work from time to time so I have access to their internal web. They don't post a DVD source CD, just the 5 CDROM. I downloaded #1 again and there is no trace of celestia. I wonder if their internal release to employees is modified slightly from the public release? I wouldn't think so, but I guess it is. I'll download from your link and install.

Thanks

[BL Wallace]

Happily installed from rpm and all is working well.

Thanks Fridger

[t00fri]

Happily installed from rpm and all is working well.

Thanks Fridger

Good

Much fun with it...

Bye Fridger