[SOLVED] Installing Celestia for 19.10

[ScottyK]

Celestia is a universe space simulator, and for a while now I've been able to install it from the repos. Now it's not listed anymore, and from the webpage the latest version that is supported is 18.04.

Is it possible to download the source code, and compile it for 19.10? If so how do I go about doing that? I pretty much have a fresh copy of 19.10 installed.

https://celestia.space/download.html

[jlittle]

Celestia is a universe space simulator ... the latest version that is supported is 18.04.

The repository for bionic works on my 19.10.

I followed the instructions on this page, (except that I had trouble with the wget command because zsh didn't like it, but bash was ok; if you don't know what zsh is, that won't bother you):

$ wget -O- https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=bintray | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo " deb https://dl.bintray.com/celestia/releases-deb bionic universe" | 
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/celestia-bintray.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install celestia

Is it possible to download the source code, and compile it for 19.10? If so how do I go about doing that?

Yes you can. Briefly, you'd need to install build-essential, cmake and git, then clone from github and follow the instructions in the file called INSTALL. Github reports 37 million users, so millions of people do this sort of thing.

[ScottyK]

That worked! Thanks...

[oldgeek]

I run the Windows version using Wine. It seems that Celestial hasn't been updated in quite awhile--it's a nice simulator and surely there are reasons for putting a newer version out.