Like the title said, I want to install Celestia. I already downloaded the packages from the official page and then, I tried all the things that I found on some posts (also, they're outdated, cause the last one is for Ubuntu 16.04) but nothing works.
How can I install it on Ubuntu 18.04.1?
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You can install Celestia by compiling sourcecode by following below steps.
Install dependencies and required packages.
sudo apt install qtbase5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev qtchooser libglu1-mesa-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libtheora-dev liblua5.3-dev build-essential Clone Source code from repository.
git clone Compile Source Code. It will take long time 5-10 mintes.
cd Celestia && mkdir build && cd build qmake -qt=5 PREFIX=/opt/celestia -o Makefile ../celestia.pro make Install Celestia.
sudo make install To install Celestia in 18.04, open a terminal and do:
wget && chmod +x Celestia* && sudo ./Celestia* Celestia will then be available in 'Show Applications' or you can launch it from the terminal with:
celestia I was not able to change travel speed in 1.7 (F1-F5, A,Z), other people do not report problem.
1. Development snapshot - repository 1.7
Follow instructions in INSTALL.md - github or opensuse
Note: I had to download key manually.
Adding launcher to favorite apps bar
copy icon to icons folder
# sudo cp ../src/celestia/qt/data/celestia.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps # for source -see below sudo cp /usr/share/celestia/celestia-logo.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/celestia.png make .desktop file
cat >$HOME/.local/share/applications/celestia.desktop <<'EOL' [Desktop Entry] Version=1.7.0 Type=Application Name=Celestia GenericName=Space simulator Comment=Open source space simulator TryExec=/usr/bin/celestia Exec=/usr/bin/celestia Categories=Astronomy;Science;Qt; Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/celestia.png MimeType=application/x-celestia-script Terminal=false EOL cd $HOME/.local/share/applications/ chmod +x celestia.desktop Adding to favorites
cat >addToMenu.sh <<'EOL' #!/usr/bin/env bash STATE=`gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps` STATE=$(sed 's/]/,'\ \'celestia.desktop\'']/g' <<< $STATE) gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "${STATE}" EOL bash addToMenu.sh 2. version 1.6.1
Follow instructions in link
3. version 1.6.2 beta
#Download beta tar.gz from: sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev sudo apt install libgtkglext1-dev sudo apt install liblua5.3-dev tar xzvf Celestia-1.6.2-beta3.tar.gz cd Celestia-1.6.2-beta3 libtoolize autoreconf -f ./configure --with-gtk make sudo make install which celestia # for .desktop # /usr/local/bin # for logo, see above find -name "celestia-logo.png" #../src/celestia/gtk/data/celestia-logo.png 4. development version from source 1.7
In addition to the previous answer qt libraries, I had to install:
sudo apt install libglew-dev libeigen3-dev libluajit-5.1-dev sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libfmt-dev libtheora-dev libjpeg-dev clone as in previous answer
git clone cd Celestia && mkdir build && cd build install with cmake
cmake -o Makefile ../ make sudo make install In celestia.desktop file, use:
TryExec=/usr/local/bin/celestia-qt Exec=/usr/local/bin/celestia-qt For the record, I had to completely uninstall anaconda (source only).
