Gene Holmerud wrote:
> Reference webpage:
> <http://www.eso.org/projects/caos/telescope/telescope.html>
>
> Has anyone on this list had any experience with this program or any
> other Linux-based TCM? I'm purchasing a very fancy telescope that can
> be controlled via EIA-232 i/f from a lap to the scope. The commericial
> (Win-only I assume) is $140. E-Gads!
>
> I have Mandrake 9.1 on one laptop (with a read DB-9 EIS-232) and SUSE
> 9.2 on a lap with only USB ports (of course
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Easy!
1) Upgrade your laptop to Mandrake 10.0 or 10.1.
2) urpmi.addmedia a set of package sources, including contrib and plf
3) Install all of your updates.
4) urpmi xephem
On a Mdk 10.0 system:
# [root@brenda root]# urpmq -i xephem
extracting xephem-3.5.2-2plf.i586
Name : xephem
Version : 3.5.2
Release : 2plf
Group : Sciences/Astronomy
Size : 4097941 Architecture: i586
Source RPM : xephem-3.5.2-2plf.src.rpm Build Host: taz.eijk.nu
URL : http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html
Summary : An X Window System/Motif based interactive astronomy program.
Description :
Xephem is an interactive astronomy program for X Windows systems.
[root@brenda root]#
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AMAZING BUT TRUE ...
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