Another linux question

[ffutures]

If you are using Celestia on a linux computer, is it showing the moon as cratered etc. or a featureless grey disk?

On my PC and iBook it's cratered, on the linux version it's featureless - but other satellites etc. are cratered. Some sort of file error, I assume, not sure what. It may have something to do with Apollo 11 being in the package as a satellite of the moon or something.

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[turol.livejournal.com]

Installed Celestia from Debian packages and tried it. Works fine. Geforce 9800. You can try to start celestia from a terminal and check if it prints any error messages.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's running fine, apart from the moon thing - I think the package supplied with Ubuntu must be missing a texture map or something. I don't have the Linux PC switched on right now, I'll investigate further when I do.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Checked the Celestia forums, it turns out the Ubuntu people put some of the texture maps into a second package that doesn't install automatically, since they weren't 100% sure of the copyright status, and didn't tell anyone.

You have to do this:

sudo apt-get install celestia-common-nonfree