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
featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)
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Re: featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)
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
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-nonfreeRe: featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)
Okay, thanks for the tip.
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Robert
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Robert
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Re: featureless planets (Gnome Celestia)
I found that you need to install the standard package first and then the nonfree version