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Basic installation instructions

Stable version installation on Unix-like systems (e.g. GNU/Linux or *BSD):

Stable version installation on Windows and OSX:

Development snapshots installation on Unix-like systems:

On Debian 10 (buster) and derived systems:

❯ curl -fsSL -o celestia.gpg https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/munix9:/unstable/Debian_10/Release.key
❯ gpg --keyid-format long celestia.gpg
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied.  Trying to guess what you mean ...
pub   rsa2048/BDF3F6ACD4D81407 2014-06-09 [SC] [expires: 2023-02-14]
      3FE0C0AC1FD6F1034B818A14BDF3F6ACD4D81407
uid                           home:munix9 OBS Project <home:munix9@build.opensuse.org>
❯ sudo mv celestia.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/celestia.asc

❯ echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/celestia.asc] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/munix9:/unstable/Debian_10/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/celestia-obs.list
❯ sudo apt update && sudo apt install celestia

On Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 and derived systems:

curl https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/munix9:/unstable/Ubuntu_${VERSION}/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/munix9:/unstable/Ubuntu_${VERSION}/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/celestia-obs.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install celestia

Where VERSION is 18.04 or 20.04.

On openSUSE Leap/Tumbleweed:

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:munix9:unstable/openSUSE_${VERSION}/home:munix9:unstable.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install celestia

Where VERSION is 'Leap_15.2', 'Leap_15.3' or 'Tumbleweed'.

See also the download package sites on OBS for celestia and celestia-data.

On other GNU/Linux distributions:

Try experimental portable AppImage (see https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/issues/333):

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/munix9:/unstable/AppImage/celestia-1.7.0-git-x86_64.AppImage
chmod 755 celestia-1.7.0-git-x86_64.AppImage

Optionally create a portable, main version-independent $HOME directory in the same folder as the AppImage file:

mkdir celestia-1.7.home

To build from sources please follow instructions below.

Common building instructions

We recommend using a copy of our git repository to build your own installation as it contains some dependencies required for building.

To create the copy install git from your OS distribution repository or from https://git-scm.com/ and then execute the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia
cd Celestia
git submodule update --init

Celestia Install instructions for UNIX

First you need a C++ compiler able to compile C++11 code (GCC 4.8.1 or later, Clang 3.3 or later), CMake, GNU Make or Ninja.

Then you need to have the following devel components installed before Celestia will build: OpenGL, libepoxy, fmtlib, Eigen3, freetype, libjpeg, and libpng. Optional packages are gettext, Qt5, Gtk2 or Gtk3, sdl2, ffmpeg, libavif, glu and glut.

For example on modern Debian-derived system you need to install the following packages: libepoxy-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libeigen3-dev, libfmt-dev, libfreetype6-dev. Then you may want to install libglu1-mesa-dev, required by some tools; qtbase5-dev, qtbase5-dev-tools and libqt5opengl5-dev if you want to build with Qt5 interface; libgtk2.0-dev and libgtkglext1-dev to build with legacy Gtk2 interface; libgtk3.0-dev to build Gtk3 interface, libsdl2-dev to build SDL interface or freeglut3-dev to build with glut interface. libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev, libavutil-dev and libswscale-dev are required to build with video capture support. libavif-dev is required to build to AVIF texture support.

OK, assuming you've collected all the necessary libraries, here's what you need to do to build and run Celestia:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DENABLE_DATA=ON -DENABLE_INTERFACE=ON [*]
make
sudo make install

[*] INTERFACE must be replaced with one of "QT", "GTK", "SDL" or "GLUT".

Four interfaces are available for Celestia on Unix-like systems:

  • GLUT: minimal interface, barebone Celestia core with no toolbar or menu... Disabled by default.
  • SDL: minimal interface, barebone Celestia core with no toolbar or menu... Disabled by default.
  • GTK: A full interface with minimal dependencies, adds a menu, a configuration dialog some other utilities. Legacy interface, may lack some new features. Disabled by default.
  • QT: A full interface with minimal dependencies, adds a menu, a configuration dialog some other utilities, bookmarks... A preferred option. Enabled by default, No need to pass -DENABLE_QT=ON.

Starting with version 1.3.1, Lua is the new scripting engine for Celestia, the old homegrown scripting engine is still available. By default Lua support is enabled, it can be disabled passing -DENABLE_CELX=OFF to cmake. Supported Lua versions are 5.1 - 5.4. On Debian-based systems install liblua5.x-dev package (replace x with 1, 2, 3 or 4) or libluajit-5.1-dev. The latter is preferred.

To check wether your Celestia has been compiled with Lua support, go to File -> Open. If you have '*.cel .celx' in the filter box, then Lua is available otherwise the filter will contain only '.cel'.

The GtkGLExt widget that is required in order to build Celestia with Gtk+ may be downloaded from http://gtkglext.sf.net. Note that depending in your distribution you may also need other packages containing various files needed by the build process. For instance, to build under SUSE Linux, you will also need to have the gtk-devel package installed. GtkGLExt widget support is optional and own EGL-based implementation of GL widget can be used instead. It also required only if Gtk2 used, with Gtk3 own implementation used always.

Celestia will be installed into /usr/local by default, with data files landing in /usr/local/share/celestia, but you may specify a new location with the following option to cmake: -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/another/path.

Celestia Install instructions for Windows (MSVC)

Currently to build on Windows you need Visual Studio 2015 or later, CMake and vcpkg (*).

Install required packages:

vcpkg --triplet=TRIPLET install --recurse libpng libjpeg-turbo gettext luajit fmt libepoxy eigen3 freetype

Install optional packages:

vcpkg --triplet=TRIPLET install --recurse qt5-base ffmpeg cspice libavif

Replace TRIPLET with x86-windows to build 32-bit versions or x64-windows for 64-bit versions.

Instead of luajit lua can be used.

Use vcpkg list to ensure that all packages have actually been installed. If not, try installing them one at a time.

Configure and build 32-bit version:

md build32
cd build32
cmake -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=Win32 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=c:/tools/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x86-windows ..
cmake --build . --  /maxcpucount:N /nologo

Configure and build 64-bit version:

md build64
cd build64
cmake -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=x64 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=c:/tools/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows ..
cmake --build . --  /maxcpucount:N /nologo

Instead of N in /maxcpucount pass the number of CPU cores you want to use during the build.

This example assumes that vcpkg is installed into c:/tools/vcpkg. Update the path to vcpkg.cmake according to your installation.

If you have Qt5 installed using official Qt installer, then pass parameter CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to cmake call used to configure Celestia, e.g.

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\Qt\5.10.1\msvc2015 ..

Not supported yet:

  • automatic installation using cmake
  • using Ninja instead of MSBuild

Notes:

Celestia Install instructions for Windows (MINGW64), qt-only

NOTE: this part is not up to date!

It is recommended to build the source with MSYS2 https://www.msys2.org/ .

Do the following in the MINGW64 shell (mingw64.exe).

Install required packages:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
pacman -S base-devel
pacman -S git
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-freeglut mingw-w64-x86_64-libepoxy mingw-w64-x86_64-lua
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-mesa

Install optional packages:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-fmt mingw-w64-x86_64-eigen3 mingw-w64-x86_64-luajit
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-sdl2

Clone the source and go to the source directory.

Configure and build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G"MSYS Makefiles" -DENABLE_WIN=OFF
mingw32-make.exe -jN

Instead of N, pass a number of CPU cores you want to use during a build.

To build in debug configuration, you have to use lld linker instead of the default linker in gcc.

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-lld mingw-w64-x86_64-lldb

Follow by:

cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DENABLE_WIN=OFF -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-fuse-ld=lld' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Then do mingw32-make.exe.

Celestia Install instructions for macOS, qt-only

Currently Qt frontend is the only available option for macOS users building Celestia from source.

Install the latest Xcode:

You should be able to get Xcode from the Mac App Store.

Install Homebrew

Follow the instructions on https://brew.sh/

Install required packages:

brew install pkg-config cmake fmt gettext libepoxy libpng lua qt5 jpeg eigen freetype

Install optional packages:

brew install cspice ffmpeg libavif

Follow common building instructions to fetch the source.

Configure and build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -jN

Instead of N, pass a number of CPU cores you want to use during a build.

Install:

make install

Celestia will be installed into /usr/local by default, with data files landing in /usr/local/share/celestia, but you may want to specify a new location with the following option to cmake: -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/another/path.

To build the application bundle, pass -DNATIVE_OSX_APP=ON to the cmake command, the application bundle will be located in the "build" folder that you previously created.

Supported CMake parameters

List of supported parameters (passed as -DPARAMETER=VALUE):

Parameter TYPE Default Description
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX path * Prefix where to install Celestia
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH path Additional path to look for libraries
LEGACY_OPENGL_LIBS bool **OFF Use OpenGL libraries not GLvnd
ENABLE_CELX bool ON Enable Lua scripting support
ENABLE_SPICE bool OFF Enable NAIF kernels support
ENABLE_NLS bool ON Enable interface translation
ENABLE_GLUT bool OFF Build simple Glut frontend
ENABLE_GTK bool **OFF Build legacy GTK2 frontend
ENABLE_QT bool ON Build Qt frontend
ENABLE_SDL bool OFF Build SQL frontend
ENABLE_WIN bool ***ON Build Windows native frontend
ENABLE_FFMPEG bool **ON Support video capture using ffmpeg
ENABLE_LIBAVIF bool OFF Support AVIF texture using libavif
ENABLE_TOOLS bool OFF Build tools for Celestia data files
ENABLE_DATA bool OFF Use CelestiaContent submodule for data
ENABLE_GLES bool OFF Use OpenGL ES 2.0 in rendering code
NATIVE_OSX_APP bool OFF Support native OSX data paths
USE_GTKGLEXT bool ON Use libgtkglext1 in GTK2 frontend
USE_GTK3 bool OFF Use Gtk3 instead of Gtk2 in GTK2 frontend

Notes: * /usr/local on Unix-like systems, c:\Program Files or c:\Program Files (x86) on Windows depending on OS type (32 or 64 bit) and build configuration. This option effect is overriden by NATIVE_OSX_APP. ** Ignored on Windows systems. *** Ignored on Unix-like systems. USE_GTK3 requires ENABLE_GTK

Parameters of type "bool" accept ON or OFF value. Parameters of type "path" accept any directory.

On Windows systems two additonal options are supported:

  • CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM - can be set to x64 on 64-bit Windows to build 64-bit Celestia. To build 32-bit Celestia it should be Win32.
  • CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE - location of vcpkg.cmake if vcpkg is used.

Please note that not all options are compatible:

  • USE_GTKGLEXT is not compatible with ENABLE_GLES and USE_GTK3 and will be disabled if any of this is set.
  • ENABLE_GLES is not compatible with ENABLE_GLUT and with ENABLE_QT if your glut or Qt5 installation don't support OpenGL ES.

Executable files

As said prevously Celestia provides several user interfaces, accordingly with interfaces it's built with it has different executable files installed to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin (e.g. with default CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX on Unix-like systems they are installed into /usr/local/bin).

Here's the table which provides executable file names accordingly to interface:

Interface Executable name
Qt5 celestia-qt
GTK celestia-gtk
GLUT celestia-glut
SDL celestia-sdl
WIN celestia-win