On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > You should probably do that, to ensure that the build procedure works on > your machine. Also, to test the resuts; I have no idea how to use this > stuff.
It builds fine, and the resulting installation works fine when I put some sky catalogs in /usr/share/astrometry/data/. The question becomes, would it be better to create a separate package (astrometry.net-data-tycho or such) for the (example/test) catalogs, than to have them in the binary/source packages? Theoretically, and I suppose in eventual actuality as well, there could be many different sets of catalogs, so separate packaging sounds like the way to go ... > Provided you can rebuild this package on your machine, AND that it actually > works, consider it GTG. With the notice/question above, it worked like a charm -- and I thank you dearly! -- jussi