How To Install stellarium on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stellarium
on Debian 10.
What is stellarium
stellarium is:
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Some features:
- default star catalogue with over 600 thousand stars,
- information about the brightest stars (spectral type, distance, etc.),
- downloadable star catalogue extensions, for up to 210 million stars,
- all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects,
- images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way,
- real time positions of the planets and their satellites,
- 13 different cultures with their constellations,
- artistic illustrations of the 88 Western constellations,
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset,
- 7 panoramic landscapes (more can be made or downloaded from the website),
- scripting with ECMAScript,
- plug-in support: Stellarium comes with 8 plug-ins by default, including:
- artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database),
- ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular),
- Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC),
- telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible).
Stellarium should not be used for very high accurate calculation or ephemerids like eclipse predictions. However, it is the ideal program to prepare an observation evening with naked eye, binocular, or small telescope.
There are three methods to install stellarium
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stellarium Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stellarium
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stellarium
Install stellarium Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stellarium
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stellarium
Install stellarium Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install stellarium
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stellarium
How To Uninstall stellarium on Debian 10
To uninstall only the stellarium
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stellarium
Uninstall stellarium And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stellarium
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stellarium
Remove stellarium Configurations and Data
To remove stellarium
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stellarium
Remove stellarium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stellarium
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stellarium
Dependencies
stellarium have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stellarium
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.