CDC is running just fine on my machine. Ubuntu i386 6.06 LTS with an AMD64 3400, 1.5gig ram. Open catalogs including Tyco. Haven't seen the new beta. I use it most clear nights as my star hopping chart out by the 0.4 meter telescope.
Jules DuBois at 42N 89.6W On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 14:32 +0000, Ed Davies wrote: > Navneeth wrote: > > I just noticed that a new beta was out, and it was also available as > a > > .deb file. Since I use Ubuntu, I preferred to download that, but > when > > I click on the link, I get a page that's filled with a lot of > > funny-looking characters. > > I also use Skychart on Ubuntu. I find it terribly slow, though, > so I don't use it much. I don't think it's Skychart's fault as > such - I suspect it's to do with the display drivers as some other > applications (e.g., Google Earth) are impossibly slow. Just > haven't got round to sorting that out yet as it doesn't affect > anything I use a lot. > > Don't quite know why you are getting a lot of funny-looking > characters though I suspect something odd is happening in your > browser so it's misidentifying the file as text. > > > Where else can I get that installer? > > Skycharts is on Sourceforge and you can access it as a Debian > repository using Synaptic or the lower level Debian package > management tools. Add the repository to your system by editing > the file /etc/apt/sources.list to add the line: > > deb http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ skychart/ > > You can then install Skycharts like any other Ubuntu package > and you'll get updates in the normal way - that's how I got > this version. > > I think you can also edit the sources.list file use Synaptic's > Software Preferences dialog but I have limited faith in this: > though the dialog box is called "Software Preferences" it is > accessed via Settings->Repositories, but is not to be confused > with the Preferences dialog accessed via Settings->Preferences > but that's obvious because the help text tells you ...wait for > it... to use the Repositories dialog which is accessed via > Preferences->Repositories. Sigh! > > Ed. >
