LXer: Stellarium Is the Best Free Astronomic Observatory on Linux

LXer · 04-26-2015, 07:31 PM

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Stellarium, a free, open source planetarium software that displays a realistic and accurate sky in 3D, has been upgraded once more and is now available for download.

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veerain · 04-26-2015, 11:59 PM

A very useful and detailed program astronomy indeed. Celestia adds up to much more.

John VV · 04-27-2015, 01:02 AM

for Stellaium DO NOT use the "softpedia" link in that article

gram the current from BZR and build the qt based program

or install from your package manager

i would recommend BZR things have changed a bit over older versions

Code:

bzr co lp:stellarium

http://stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Bzr_checkout

the current is 13.3
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stel...ources/0.13.3/

stellarium is now using a fare number of the Celestia textures
( shameless plug -- some of them are mine )

veerain · 04-27-2015, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by John VV

for Stellaium DO NOT use the "softpedia" link in that article

Though I always build from source. But why do you say don't get from softpedia. May I know why and reasons.