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Hi all-

I have been running Celestia on my Linux machine (Mint, which is Ubuntu-based) and all seemed fine. But now i seem to be missing most of my textures.

Jupiter and all its moons are just big white balls. Same for Mars, Neptune and Uranus. But Saturn seems ok (at least for some its moons). I can right-click and apply alternative surfaces, which then work (if i have one), but what happened to the default ones? And how can i fix this? Thanks!


-Fizz

So i did a full reinstall of Celestia, and the textures are still missing. It seems like the default textures aren't included. I've searched for the texture files and they're simply not there. What happened?

-Fizz

how was it installed?

Markerz wrote:how was it installed?

I followed the instructions from the Download section (https://celestia.space/download.html) which redirected to:
https://bintray.com/celestia/releases-deb/celestia/view/readmore#read

Things work, it's just missing the textures.

-Fizz

have you installed celestia-common-nonfree? this should include textures and models

Markerz wrote:have you installed celestia-common-nonfree? this should include textures and models

No, i don't see reference to that in the install functions. How would i get / install it?

I tried apt-get install celestia-common-nonfree , but it doesn't install.




-Fizz

dunno about mint much, but you can download it from our bintray or from from ubuntu site.

onetwothree wrote:dunno about mint a lot, but you can download it from our bintray or from from ubuntu site.

That seems to have fixed it. I wonder why it is not included in the primary install. Regardless, thanks much!

-Fizz

due to license restrictions. a lot of celestia assets prohibited commercial usage or had obscure licenses so they were considered nonfree. fortunately these restrictions were lifted recently.