{"id":10362,"date":"2020-06-24T12:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2020-06-24T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:36:37","slug":"stellarium-0-20-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/stellarium-0-20-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellarium 0.20.2 Released as 20 Year Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free open-source astronomy software Stellarium 0.20.2 was released a few days ago as the 20 year anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Stellarium 0.20.2 contains many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium, changes in scripting engline and Script Console, Oculars and Satellites plugins, updated DSO catalog, see <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarium.org\/release\/2020\/06\/22\/stellarium-0.20.2.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note for details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stellarium-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stellarium-pic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stellarium-pic-450x188.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Stellarium 0.20.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~stellarium\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stellarium-releases\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official Stellarium PPA<\/a> contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium\/stellarium-releases<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stellarium-ppa-bionic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"116\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stellarium-ppa-bionic.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stellarium-ppa-bionic-450x87.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then either upgrade Stellarium from an old version with Software Updater utility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium-450x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium-450x317.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or run following commands to install or upgrade the software from terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install stellarium<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove stellarium<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA via &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility under Other Software tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/remove-stellarium-ppa-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/remove-stellarium-ppa-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/remove-stellarium-ppa-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/remove-stellarium-ppa.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free open-source astronomy software Stellarium 0.20.2 was released a few days ago as the 20 year anniversary celebration. Stellarium 0.20.2 contains many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium, changes in scripting engline and Script Console, Oculars and Satellites plugins, updated DSO catalog, see release note for details. How to Install Stellarium 0.20.2 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[648],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-stellarium"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}