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Building and running gcx
To build the program, do a:
./configure ; make
Check the INSTALL file for build options. To install, become root, then run:
make install
You can then run the program:
gcx
To create an initial configuration file (~/.gcxrc), run the program, then
select File->Edit Options, then Save. Options can be edited from inside the
Edit Options dialog, or directly in .gcxrc.
The manual is distributed as a latex file, and already built into a pdf and
dvi. To rebuild it, cd to docs, then do make/make dvi/make pdf. make pdf requires
pdflatex.
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Catalogs
The gsc catalog is available for download from
ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/I/220/
The path to gcx should be set in the config file. Make sure all directory and file
names are in lowercase.
gcx can read edb catalogs (fixed objects only). Currently, it looks
for Messier.edb, NGC.edb, UGC.edb, YBS.edb and gcvs.edb.
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Controlling cameras
gcx uses a separate camera control process, which can run on the same computer,
or somewhere on the network. For cpx3m cameras, the camera control server is
cpxctrl.
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Controlling a telescope
gcx can control a telescope using the LX200 protocol. It must have read-write
access to a serial port (default: /dev/ttyS0) to do that.
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This program is free software, provided under the Gnu General
Public License. Please see the file 'LICENSE' for details.
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Build problems
The most common reason ./configure may fail is if the development package
containing gtk1.2 is not intalled (the package is usually called gtk-devel
or similar).
Some people report problem building / running on suse10. The most likely
cause of this is the way the gtk1.2 or associated libraries are configured
on that distribution. If anyone has a fix or procedure for building on that
distribution, i'd like to hear about it (and include it here).
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