Re: [Closed REQ 6194]: Orrery

[daemon]

OK, you can find it at
  ftp://geom.umn.edu/priv/slevy/orrery.tar.gz

Here's the "INSTALLATION" section of the "README.orrery" file included
there, which may be handy to read before unpacking the above tar file:


INSTALLATION

To install this package, just extract the tar file into the directory where
geomview is installed.  It will place files in data/modules/orrery,
and a .geomview-orrery file in each system-specific subdirectory of
modules.  For example, if geomview lives in /usr/local/Geomview,
you could say

  cd /usr/local/Geomview
  gunzip < orrery.tar.gz | tar xvfopB -

The .geomview-orrery file(s) mention "wish", the tcl/tk interpreter;
they assume it's on your UNIX search path.
You may want to change this for a couple of reasons:

  - if you have a version 8.0 wish installed somewhere,
        and it's different from "wish", use that.  The pre-interpretation
        in tcl/tk 8.0 speeds up the orrery's calculations quite a bit.
  - if you don't have "wish" installed, but you do have one of the
        geomview 1.6.1 releases, you can use its built-in wish.
        Change "wish" to "emodule-wish.sh".

  In either case, you can just edit any of the
    modules/*/.geomview-orrery
  files; they're all linked together, so changing any of them changes all.


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Please let us know how it goes; only a few people have tried it, and only
one has given any feedback so far.


  Stuart Levy