Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a "cybersky" program
> which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux
> programs around, Celestia and Kstars.
>
> Kstars is simple soooo slooooow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the
> other hand, performs quite well, even with my "legacy" Nvidia card.
> Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a
> light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data?
> Installed off Sid.
>
The source code contains the images. After download, just copy the
content of directory 'textures' to /usr/share/celestia/textures.
It was working in Etch out-of-the-box, though. I did the same after
upgrade. I haven't checked the bug reports since then.
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