Linux version question

[rfbeck]

I recently downloaded Celestia to use on Ubuntu. I don't see a command menu bar at the top as there is in the Windows version. Is the Linux version only driven by keyboard commands?

[ajtribick]

Which frontend did you download? Synaptic lists three frontends (I'm still using Gutsy, don't know what the situation is in Hardy): KDE (celestia), GNOME (celestia-gnome), GLUT (celestia-glut).

[duds26]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) has gnome 2.22.1 by default.

[rfbeck]

I'm using GLUT. I really didn't know what I was doing when I installed it.Can I uninstall GLUT and in install the GNOME front end? How do I do this?

[ajtribick]

Open "Synaptic Package Manager" from the System>Administration menu.
Use the search button to search for "celestia". The list of packages you get should include "celestia", "celestia-common", "celestia-glut" and "celestia-gnome".
The ones you want are "celestia-common" and "celestia-gnome". You've probably already got "celestia-common" (the square next to it should be green).
Click on the item "celestia-gnome" and select "Mark for Installation". Synaptic may want to install some other packages along with this, so you may get a window pop up when you do this. If this happens, click the "Mark" button so that Synaptic will install the required packages.
Click on the item "celestia-glut" and select "Mark for Removal".
Then click "Apply" (it's the button with a green tick symbol on it)

Or if you want to do it from the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove celestia-glut
sudo apt-get install celestia-gnome

[John Van Vliet]

edit 5:29 pm

[rfbeck]

Okay, thanks everyone for the help!



Robert