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Hi everybody

I am a french amateur astronomer and I try to use the Linux platform (Ubuntu 11.10) for all my astronomy work.

I have installed Xephem and It runs. But it seems access path to images, data, etc is not correct. Xephem tries to find out images by example in /home/robert/auxil, but the right path is /home/robert/xephem/auxil.

Could someone tell me where I can change this path ?

Thanks.

From: Tristan Gonzalez
Subject: Re: [xephem] New Xepehm user
To: "xephem@..."
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 4:43 PM

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The INSTALL file explains to create ~/.xephem/XEphem with the path to the sharedirectory, in your case /home/robert/xephem. ?Take a look at the INSTALL file.

-Tristan

On Jun 14, 2012, at 2:15 PM, "morelli.robert@..." <morelli.robert@...> wrote:

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Hi everybody

I am a french amateur astronomer and I try to use the Linux platform (Ubuntu 11.10) for all my astronomy work.

I have installed Xephem and It runs. But it seems access path to images, data, etc is not correct. Xephem tries to find out images by example in /home/robert/auxil, but the right path is /home/robert/xephem/auxil.

Could someone tell me where I can change this path ?

Thanks.

In Linux you can probably make a soft link to point the actual directory to the desired one. ln -s?/home/robert/xephem/auxil?/home/robert/auxil That is: ln -s actual-directory desired-directory Get Your Astronomy Fix At? --- On Thu, 6/14/12, Tristan Gonzalez wrote: From: Tristan Gonzalez Subject: Re: [xephem] New Xepehm user To: "xephem@..." Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 4:43 PM ? The INSTALL file explains to create ~/.xephem/XEphem with the path to the sharedirectory, in your case /home/robert/xephem. ?Take a look at the INSTALL file. -Tristan On Jun 14, 2012, at 2:15 PM, "morelli.robert@..." <morelli.robert@...> wrote: ? Hi everybody I am a french amateur astronomer and I try to use the Linux platform (Ubuntu 11.10) for all my astronomy work. I have installed Xephem and It runs. But it seems access path to images, data, etc is not correct. Xephem tries to find out images by example in /home/robert/auxil, but the right path is /home/robert/xephem/auxil. Could someone tell me where I can change this path ? Thanks.

Hi Larry,

I think that it is much more better to follow the Install file fully and
copy all described stuff in /usr/local/xephem/ directory ? ....

then you create the? $HOME/.xephem/XEphem? file
which must contain the declaration line :

XEphem.ShareDir: /usr/local/xephem

So, no more problems !! ;-)

Best regards,
Serge.

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