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by dbaker
25.11.2018, 12:29
Forum: Help Central
Topic: Inputting latitude and longitude in Linux
Replies: 1
Views: 3074

Inputting latitude and longitude in Linux

The Mac OS version of Celestia has a feature where you can open the Location menu, select Go To Object and are able to enter latitude and longitude for an object, and the distance from the object, and the app will zoom you to that exact location. I am using Celestia on Linux and really want this fea...
by dbaker
25.11.2018, 11:39
Forum: Help Central
Topic: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux
Replies: 38
Views: 21658

Re: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux

Thank you, got it working :)
by dbaker
25.11.2018, 09:47
Forum: Help Central
Topic: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux
Replies: 38
Views: 21658

Re: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux

I installed gtk 2 using sudo apt install gtk2.0 . Is that the correct package? Because the autopackage still fails. See my original post for the output when I run it. After make the usual step is sudo make install That's what I would have thought, but that instruction is not in the readme which made...
by dbaker
25.11.2018, 04:42
Forum: Help Central
Topic: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux
Replies: 38
Views: 21658

Re: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux

Thanks for your response. I'm not sure what you mean about the Ubuntu repos - I was not trying to install Celestia via them! I just downloaded the autopackage file celestia-1.5.1.x86.package from the download page on the Celestia website: https://celestia.space/download.html If this autopackage scri...
by dbaker
24.11.2018, 11:46
Forum: Help Central
Topic: Trouble installing Celestia on Linux
Replies: 38
Views: 21658

Trouble installing Celestia on Linux

Hi everyone I'm trying to install Celestia on my Linux machine. I'm running Kubuntu 17.10 and I have installed all of the dependencies listed in the readme (I've also tried building from source, but was unable to do so; however, let's get to that later, I want to try and get the package file working...

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