Package Details: stellarium-bin 24.1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/stellarium-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: stellarium-bin
Description: Software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL
Upstream URL: https://stellarium.org/
Keywords: 3d astronomy planetarium simulator stellarium
Licenses: GPL2
Conflicts: stellarium
Provides: stellarium
Submitter: chardon_cs
Maintainer: chardon_cs
Last Packager: chardon_cs
Votes: 8
Popularity: 0.90
First Submitted: 2022-10-11 05:51 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-04-14 07:02 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

chardon_cs commented on 2022-10-11 05:55 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-25 11:41 (UTC) by chardon_cs)

Differences between stellarium, stellarium-lite, and stellarium-bin:

  • stellarium builds Stellarium from their official source code, with full features
  • stellarium-lite also builds Stellarium from the source code, but without GPS and telescope control features
  • stellarium-bin (this AUR) extracts official AppImage instead, which contains all dependencies itself

NOTE: For Qt5 version, see stellarium-qt5-bin.

When should you use stellarium-bin?

  • Pursuing minimal dependency usage from pacman
  • Don't want to build from scratch (although it's automated via pkgbuild)
  • Want the same thing in the original AppImage

When should you NOT use stellarium-bin?

  • Want to run a Qt6-based Stellarium
  • Want a smaller package
  • Want to use dependencies provided by pacman, in order to share them with other installed packages

PS: Before the installation, please run the following command to download the public key. :)

gpg --recv-keys BF38D4D02A328DFF

Or run makepkg with --skippgpcheck to skip this.

You can use yay or paru to make it easier.

Latest Comments

chardon_cs commented on 2022-10-11 05:55 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-25 11:41 (UTC) by chardon_cs)

Differences between stellarium, stellarium-lite, and stellarium-bin:

  • stellarium builds Stellarium from their official source code, with full features
  • stellarium-lite also builds Stellarium from the source code, but without GPS and telescope control features
  • stellarium-bin (this AUR) extracts official AppImage instead, which contains all dependencies itself

NOTE: For Qt5 version, see stellarium-qt5-bin.

When should you use stellarium-bin?

  • Pursuing minimal dependency usage from pacman
  • Don't want to build from scratch (although it's automated via pkgbuild)
  • Want the same thing in the original AppImage

When should you NOT use stellarium-bin?

  • Want to run a Qt6-based Stellarium
  • Want a smaller package
  • Want to use dependencies provided by pacman, in order to share them with other installed packages

PS: Before the installation, please run the following command to download the public key. :)

gpg --recv-keys BF38D4D02A328DFF

Or run makepkg with --skippgpcheck to skip this.

You can use yay or paru to make it easier.