Thank you Alex, I'll get to look at that sometime this weekend. I did notice it was the 0.5 version Quite a bit of the Ubuntu repository is a little dated. !
Norm
Alexandru Csete wrote:
Hi Norm and others,
Quoting "Norm, VK2XCI" vk2xci@aanet.com.au:
I guess I really mean prediction software! From the Ubuntu Gnome Repository I've got Gnome Predict 'sort of running" It puts me IN the right place QF15bt but REPORTS it as QF25bt so I'm a bit suspicious about the accuracy. Feel free to put me right.
You are not wrong, but the version available in the Ubuntu repositories is very old and has many bugs. There has been a major update to gpredict quite recently, including improvements of the accuracy and prediction capabilities.
The new version is available for debian at http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpredict.html and as far as I know Ubuntu uses the same packages as Debian, so you could give it a try.
Information about third party packages for other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac is avalable at http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/gpredict/download.php
Alex OZ9AEC
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