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LcViewer under Linux

  • zoo3hans by zoo3hans

    I finally managed to run Al Schmitt's excellent Light Curve Viewer "LcViewer" under my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Generating new light curves does also work now thanks to Al who sent me an updated get_lightcurve.vbs file. If anyone wants to try it himself/herself, this is what I have done:

    winetricks dotnet30 (i.e. installing .net )

    wine ./dotnet35setup.exe

    (unzip LcTools.zip)

    (unzip Lightcurves.zip)

    mv LcTools ~/.wine/drive_c/

    mv Lightcurves ~/.wine/drive_c/

    wine /tmp/jre-6u7-windows-i586-p.exe (i.e. installing java )

    cd ~/.wine/drive_c/LcTools/

    vi ./JavaPath.txt (add single line with contents "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\java.exe")

    cp /tmp/get_lightcurve.vbs ~/.wine/drive_c/LcTools/

    chmod a+rx ~/.wine/drive_c/LcTools/get_lightcurve.vbs

    wine ./LcViewer.exe

    Yours, Hans Martin

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  • ajamyajax by ajamyajax

    Dear Hans Martin,

    Nice work if you are doing all this on Ubuntu! I enjoyed using that LINUX flavor on a test PC a few years back, and hope to again someday. I think I saw they even have a smart phone O/S now. All nice to see especially since it is (often) free, is generally virus-free, and usually works with a few tweaks here and there. Enjoy.

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  • alschmitt by alschmitt

    I'd also like to thank Hans for the time and effort spent on this project. It's amazing how many different environments LcViewer will work on. I heard from a customer a while back that it runs fine on a Mac under VMFusion. Since I only have a Windows 7 machine, I really can't try out other environments myself.

    Many thanks, Hans!

    Al Schmitt

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