Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
Nyizsnyik Ferenc a écrit :
> 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.
>
Hi, just in case you don't know it already, official add-ons are to be
found on http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/
A lot of stuff is also available through celestia forum, but anything
not the above repository shouldn't be considered stable/safe.
Tom
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