{"id":7408,"date":"2018-01-02T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2018-01-02T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:22:55","slug":"install-stellarium-0-17-0-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/install-stellarium-0-17-0-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Stellarium 0.17.0 in Ubuntu 18.04\/17.10\/16.04"},"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=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stellarium, a free planetarium software, reached the 0.17.0 release with many new features, bug-fixes, and other changes.<\/p>\n<p>The major changes in Stellarium 0.17.0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)<\/li>\n<li>Added improvements for AstroCalc tool<\/li>\n<li>Added improvements for Oculars plugin<\/li>\n<li>Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin<\/li>\n<li>Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin<\/li>\n<li>Updated code and data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the full changes, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarium.org\/release\/2017\/12\/21\/stellarium-0.17.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stellarium-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stellarium-ubuntu.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stellarium-ubuntu-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Stellarium 0.17.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official Stellarium PPA has built the packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or from app launcher. 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>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial-600x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"107\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial-600x107.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial-450x80.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade Stellarium from an existing release 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 the software for the first time:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get 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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellarium, a free planetarium software, reached the 0.17.0 release with many new features, bug-fixes, and other changes. The major changes in Stellarium 0.17.0: Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project) Added improvements for AstroCalc tool Added improvements for Oculars plugin Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[648],"class_list":["post-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-stellarium"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}