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On 16 Mar 2008, at 05:50, Bruce Robertson wrote:
Your Predict is possibly dying for a lack of a TLE file. Point to one with the -t command-line parameter. Ensure also that a qth file is being created in ~/.predict and that you as user can read it with, e.g. 'cat'. I believe predict is supposed to find a tle file in that same directory, but I think I've had troubles with that option.
Predict will run without a TLE file - you won't see any predictions
Finally, make sure that your tle file does not have any comments at its top before the actual elements. For instance, the commonly used nasa.tle files have a set of comments describing the tle format. Predict dies on these.
Predict ignores data in the TLE file before the TLE data, so if you get your TLE as a meil message you don't need to remove the headers
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Kent R. Frazier k5knt@amsat.org wrote:
I just installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and Predict 2.2.3 on my notebook. When I start Predict I get the "new user" screen where I enter the required information. After pressing the "enter" key on the last entry I get a command prompt. I can not seem to get to the main menu.
Is anyone using this software that could offer some suggestions? Or maybe another alternative to run under Linux?
I think your problem is with permissions - The original author of the program had it set up so the you need to be root to compile or install it - but you don't if you just keep the program as a local binary.