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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/UFZ3LBLFMICEQ7DLLNMKA6IPXZXQRID6/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "UFZ3LBLFMICEQ7DLLNMKA6IPXZXQRID6", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/LIGONIGT55PSXQ4TTHEURFWYPRMSS2KJ/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "ve9qrp (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": "4d6061838db34aba9a1c4722addebfaf", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4d6061838db34aba9a1c4722addebfaf/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Bruce Robertson", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Predict 2.2.3 for Linux", "date": "2008-03-18T01:25:35Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/6RWWY2M227R7PQXZ3FVVXPHLLFO4LEQ5/?format=api", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:44 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:\n> Bruce,\n>\n> Do you have Gnome Predict installed also? I have found the same problem after\n> installing Gpredict, but it will do it still even after uninstalling gpredict.\n>\n> James W8ISS\n\nI just checked my Ubuntu 7.10 and, no, I did not have the gpredict\npackage installed. In a private letter to KD2BD, I noted two other\nthings: first, if I uninstalled the package and built predict from\nsource the result was a properly-functioning copy of predict;\nsecondly, the 'broken' copies could be fixed by putting a predict.tle\nand predict.db file from a working copy in the ~/.predict directory.\nIt must be something about the routines that create those files for\nthe first time in ~/.predict; however, permissions are an obvious\nproblem because the predict.qth file makes it just fine.\n\n73, Bruce\nVE9QRP\n\n>\n> ---------- Original Message -----------\n> From: \"Bruce Robertson\" <[email protected]>\n> To: \"John Heaton\" <[email protected]>\n> Cc: AMSAT-BB <[email protected]>\n> Sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:23:58 -0300\n> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Predict 2.2.3 for Linux\n>\n> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, John Heaton <[email protected]>\n> > wrote:\n> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n> > > Hash: SHA1\n> > >\n> > >\n> > > On 16 Mar 2008, at 05:50, Bruce Robertson wrote:\n> > > > Your Predict is possibly dying for a lack of a TLE file. Point to one\n> > > > with the -t command-line parameter. Ensure also that a qth file is\n> > > > being created in ~/.predict and that you as user can read it with,\n> > > > e.g. 'cat'. I believe predict is supposed to find a tle file in that\n> > > > same directory, but I think I've had troubles with that option.\n> > >\n> > > Predict will run without a TLE file - you won't see any predictions\n> >\n> > I just double-checked this, and I still find that if there is no tle\n> > file and none pointed to with a -t switch, it will die as Kent\n> > described below. Namely, it will send you to the new user screen and\n> > then exit when the info is entered. (Unfortunately, it exits with the\n> > terminal in a funny state.) In my experience, it does this on a fresh\n> > install with apt-get on Ubuntu, or with a build install (using root).\n> > This is a frustrating loop for the user, since he or she can\n> > reasonably expect that the data is entered after the first attempt,\n> > and furthermore the qth file can be found in the ~/.predict\n> >\n> > I've taken a screenshot and posted it at\n> > http://heml.mta.ca/Amsat/predict-fail.png\n> >\n> > If, however, you use -t to point it to a tle file it can't parse, it\n> > will do as you, John, describe above. More specifically, you can\n> > select the [P] option from the main menu, but this results in a blank\n> > list of satellites from which to choose.\n> >\n> > For instance, the following command will produce this effect:\n> > brucerob@heml:~$ touch foo\n> > brucerob@heml:~$ predict -t foo\n> >\n> > I get the exact same effect if I use the documented nasa tle files.\n> > For example:\n> >\n> > brucerob@heml:~$ wget http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all\n> > brucerob@heml:~$ predict -t nasa.all\n> >\n> > Fails the same as my 'foo' file above. However if I edit out the\n> > comments in the file describing the file format so that the first\n> > line begins with 'AO-07', predict operates normally.\n> >\n> > > > Finally, make sure that your tle file does not have any comments at\n> > > > its top before the actual elements. For instance, the commonly used\n> > > > nasa.tle files have a set of comments describing the tle format.\n> > > > Predict dies on these.\n> > >\n> > > Predict ignores data in the TLE file before the TLE data, so if you\n> > > get your TLE as a meil message you don't need to remove the headers\n> >\n> > Perhaps predict is written to ignore the headers of a mail message,\n> > but not the comments that appear in the nasa file?\n> >\n> > I hope it is understood that I'm documenting this because I like\n> > predict and consider it a wonderful arrow in AMSAT's quiver. Indeed,\n> > since it might be a potential AMSAT'er's first encounter with pass\n> > prediction -- given that it is part of the debian world -- I think we\n> > should ensure that it is very easy to use. Furthermore it\n> > cross-compiles like a dream: as I've said elsewhere it works\n> > identically on a Nokia N800; and another member of this list got it\n> > to run on the gumstix platform.\n> >\n> > 73, Bruce\n> > VE9QRP\n> >\n> > >\n> > > >\n> > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Kent R. Frazier <[email protected]>\n> > > > wrote:\n> > > >> I just installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and Predict 2.2.3 on my\n> > > >> notebook. When I\n> > > >> start Predict I get the \"new user\" screen where I enter the required\n> > > >> information. After pressing the \"enter\" key on the last entry I\n> > > >> get a\n> > > >> command prompt. I can not seem to get to the main menu.\n> > > >>\n> > > >> Is anyone using this software that could offer some suggestions?\n> > > >> Or maybe\n> > > >> another alternative to run under Linux?\n> > >\n>\n> > _______________________________________________\n> > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n> > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n> ------- End of Original Message -------\n>\n>\n", "attachments": [] }