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stu90 · Posted: Sat 15 Jan 2011, 10:19 Post subject:

updated .pet in first post to stellarium_0.10.6
will also upload the stellarium_0.10.6.sfs tonight.
Cool

bigbeck · Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 49

Will Stellarium 10.5 work without open GL? I currently have Stellarium 10.1 running on my machine - but I have to use windows to run it. Rolling Eyes

If only there was a 10.1 for puppy, I wouldn't have to run Windows at all. Very Happy

When I try to run 10.6 in Puppy5.2,I get a "no open GL support" error message. I guess a new video card that supports Open GL is in order?

Don

emil · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 547 Location: Austria

bigbeck,

type glxinfo in terminal

There should be information on OpenGL if you have it. Else try go to Quickpet drivers, test video card and hopefully you can install appropriate drivers for your system.

bigbeck · Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 49

Thanks emil. I was just about to buy a new video card. I went to the driver menu in Quickpet and downloaded an updated driver. Stellarium now works! It loads quite a bit faster than the Windows version, too.

Thanks again, you're a Prince!

Don

emil · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 547 Location: Austria

Great

!
sadly, without the drivers even the new card wouldn't help ( I guess).
And Prince i am not, too old for that Wink

Barkingmad · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 111

For anyone who needs or prefers Puppy 4.3 it is possible to run Stu90's Stellarium .pet - I'll try to explain. This is what works for me on Puppy 4.3.1 kernel 2.6.30.5.

First things
back up your installation and any files that are on the same drive before trying this.

Install the full Open GL graphic drivers by running Puppy Package Manager and looking under the All category for

stu90 · Posted: Sun 13 Mar 2011, 09:40 Post subject:

Nice guide Barkingmad

cheers Cool

donal · Guest

Architecture: i686
Repository: Extra
Description: A stellarium with great graphics and a nice database of sky-objects
Upstream URL: http://stellarium.free.fr/
License(s): GPL2
Groups: None
Maintainers: Ronald van Haren
Package Size: 32.5 MB
Installed Size: 44.5 MB
Last Packager: Ronald van Haren
Build Date: Feb. 4, 2011, 4:07 p.m. UTC
Last Updated: 2011-02-04
-This release brings some interesting new features:
- New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.
- New plugin: Solar System editor.
- New plugin: Time Zone manual override.
- Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine w/ orbits.
- Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.
- Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox / epoch override.

falah · Joined: 19 Oct 2011 Posts: 1

Stellarium works! good It loads quite a bit faster than the Windows version, too.

Thanks a lot!!!

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2673 Location: Kiel,Germany

Want to say hello and note some observations for stellarium on Puppy Lupu 5 :

There are

Stellarium-0.10.4-Lucid.pet

and

stellarium_0.10.6-0.pet

on the ibiblio mirror

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-lucid/

.

My installation is a Puppy Lupu/lucid 5.1.1 full installation .

I installed the 0.10.4 pet first, which showed some bugs [tested only jwm] :

1. The left bottom sidebar showed only three contents
2. The left bottom bar did not show at all
3. jwm did not create a window frame , had been splash all the time
4. Therefore apparently F11 toggling fullscreen did not work, froze the computer, had to do hard poweroff
5. Also Control+q to leave the program froze my system (intel dual core@2,6GHz;4GB Ram)

The 0.10.6 version runs OK .

I am not a big supporter of updates and upgrades, but in this case it is really essential .

Additional NOTE : The Stellarium .pet s come with qt-4.6.2 . I had qt-4.3.2 already installed , and did not run ldconfig, so libQtcore.so still points to libQtcore.so.4.3.2 while libQtcore.so.4 got upgraded to point to libQtcore.so.4.6.2 (and same for all the other Qt4 libs) .

Thanks ! Very Happy