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featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)

Posted: 12.06.2009, 20:57
by rfbeck
I use Gnome Celestia (for Ubuntu Linux) with and 7950 Nividia graphics card, driver version 180. I have all of Celestia's features turned on. When I look at a planet (expect for Earth ironically) all I see is a featureless sphere. For instance Mars is just pinkish red with no surface features. Jupiter is just an off white sphere with no atmosphere.
I had a previous installation of Celestia (also Gnome from my package manager) and it didn't have this problem. What could be wrong?
Thanks.
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Robert

Re: featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)

Posted: 12.06.2009, 21:47
by ajtribick
The Celestia supplied in Ubuntu's packages is broken.

The package with all the textures in it is called celestia-common-nonfree, which is NOT automatically installed when you add the celestia package. Install this package either through synaptic package manager or with the following command line

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sudo apt-get install celestia-common-nonfree

Re: featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)

Posted: 12.06.2009, 23:16
by rfbeck
Okay, thanks for the tip.
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Robert

Re: featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)

Posted: 29.09.2009, 07:10
by SteveZodiac
I found that you need to install the standard package first and then the nonfree version