Where is Stellarium folder in Linux?

[Martin Lewicki]

Want to add landscapes and other data.

I can find Skychart and other programs in /bin/usr/shared/, but not Stellarium. 

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/10/25 20:27, Martin Lewicki wrote:
> Want to add landscapes and other data.
> I can find Skychart and other programs in /bin/usr/shared/, but not Stellarium.

> ...
On ubuntu:

520 $ find /usr/share -name \*stell* | wc
35 35 1928
521 $

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gil

[Martin Lewicki]

Om Mint 22.1 result is...

user etc ~$ find /usr/share -name \*stell* | wc
    112     112    6184

user etc ~$ 

What are those numbers?

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Hi!

Why don’t use ~/.stellarium for custom data?

With best regards, Alexander Wolf.

Пн, 11 авг. 2025 г. в 10:19, Martin Lewicki <martin....@gmail.com>:

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[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/10/25 21:19, Martin Lewicki wrote:
>
> Om Mint 22.1 result is...
>
> user etc ~$ find /usr/share -name \*stell* | wc
>     112     112    6184
> user etc ~$
>
> What are those numbers?
> On Monday, August 11, 2025 at 12:19:29 PM UTC+9:30 Paul Gilmartin wrote:

> ...
Leave off the "| ..." and you will see a list of 112
directory/path filenames.

On Ubuntu I see:
526 $ find /usr/share -iname \*lands*
...
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/status/orientation-landscape-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable/status/orientation-landscape-inverse-symbolic.svg
...

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[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/10/25 21:38, Alexander V. Wolf wrote:
>
> Why don’t use ~/.stellarium for custom data?

> ...
Yes. In guide.pdf 7 I see:
Linux ~/.stellarium/landscapes/rosenbur

That directory may not exist until you create it.

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[Martin Lewicki]

Not sure if I follow the last "Why don’t use ~/.stellarium for custom data? "

It is obvious Stellarium 25.2 installed ok  - but where? 

What do I do? create ~/Stellarium folder in  /bin/usr/share after the fact and put data in there?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/11/25 07:05, Martin Lewicki wrote:
> Not sure if I follow the last "Why don’t use ~/.stellarium for custom data? "
> It is obvious Stellarium 25.2 installed ok  - but where?
> What do I do? create ~/Stellarium folder in  /bin/usr/share after the fact and put data in there?

> ...
Are you the only user of this Linux system?

From the command line:
mkdir -p ~/.stellarium/landscapes

It may be trickier from a file manager because .stellarium is hidden.

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/11/25 07:05, Martin Lewicki wrote:

> Not sure if I follow the last "Why don’t use ~/.stellarium for custom data? "
> It is obvious Stellarium 25.2 installed ok  - but where?
> What do I do? create ~/Stellarium folder in  /bin/usr/share after the fact and put data in there?

> ...
I believe Alexander is suggesting that you create
a private "landscapes" directory, not add to
the public one.

Are you the only user of this Linux system?

From the command line:
mkdir -p ~/.stellarium/landscapes

It may be trickier from a file manager because .stellarium is hidden.

[Martin Lewicki]

Yes I am the  only User.

I executed: 

mkdir -p ~/.stellarium/landscapes

But where is it located so that I can access it? Not in the usual /usr/shared/ location.

Is this a new thing with Stellarium? My previous computer with Linux Mint 22.0  /Stellarium/ folder easily found in  /usr/shared/ along with Skychart  and URUK where data files were easily imported. 

Martin

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/11/25 19:10, Martin Lewicki wrote:
> Yes I am the  only User.
>
> I executed:
> mkdir -p ~/.stellarium/landscapes
> But where is it located so that I can access it? Not in the usual /usr/shared/ location.
>
> Is this a new thing with Stellarium? My previous computer with Linux Mint 22.0  /Stellarium/ folder easily found in  /usr/shared/ along with Skychart  and URUK where data files were easily imported.

> ...
Quoting guide.pdf:
5.1.3 Linux
installation directory This is in the share/stellarium sub-directory of the installation prefix,
i.e., usually /usr/share/stellarium or /usr/local/share/stellarium/.

user directory This is the .stellarium sub-directory of user’s home directory, i.e., ~/.stellarium/.
This is a hidden folder, so if you are using a graphical file browser, you may want to change
its settings to “display hidden folders”.

screenshot save directory Screenshots are saved to the user’s home directory is represented

In UNIX-like systems, a user's home directory is represented by
"$HOME" or "~", so on a certain Linux system:
539 $ realpath "$HOME"
/home/paulgilm
540 $ realpath ~
/home/paulgilm
541 $

/home contains directories belonging to individual
users; /usr/share belongs to the system administrator,
shared by all users and should be modified only
by the administrator. With the prevalence of personal
computers this distinction has become blurred
but Stellarium continues to respect it in order to
support large systems with multiple users.

Upgrading Stellarium is likely to regress changes
users make to the installation directory. Act as
a user and add landscapes to User Directory.

Stellarium lacks the 3-level hierarchy provided
by very large systems:
Supplier
Administrator
Users
... It does quite well without it.

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gil

[Martin Lewicki]

Paul

That's what I would have expected and it was on my previous computer running Mint 22.0

But this time on my latest computer Mint 22.1 this is not so!

Check the screen shot displaying the folders for both of the conditions ,left and right panels respectively

 /usr/share/stellarium and /usr/local/share/stellarium/.

Skychart appears where one would expect (Stellarium too...) in /user/share/

...but no sign of /Stellarium in either panels.

Puzzled!

[Alexander V. Wolf]

Hi Martin,

Did you install deb, snap, or appimage package?

With best regards, Alexander Wolf.

Ср, 13 авг. 2025 г. в 12:31, Martin Lewicki <martin....@gmail.com>:

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[Alexander V. Wolf]

Пт, 15 авг. 2025 г. в 16:26, Martin Lewicki <martin....@gmail.com>:

Alex

Thanks for the  explanation. I am still stuck about where the user Stellarium directory is placed, or is it accessible at all? Shame landscapes could not be added through the software. Maybe in the future.

Adding landscapes via GUI is implemented many years ago. The user directory of Stellarium in linux is ~/.stellarium or /home/<user login>/.stellarium

By default all files and directories with leading dot are hidden in graphical file managers. Please enable displaying hidden files/directories in settings or use midnight commander to manage files.

By the way, is the forum offline? None of my posts have been received and no new posts have appeared since 13 August.

Is it possible that these messages were sent as direct emails?

[Martin Lewicki]

Test. Have  not been able to post  or receive  for many days.

Anyone?

[Martin Lewicki]

I installed from the repository here...

On Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 4:09:09 PM UTC+9:30 Alexander V. Wolf wrote:

[Martin Lewicki]

My posts are not getting through. Pleas confirm.

On Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 4:09:09 PM UTC+9:30 Alexander V. Wolf wrote:

[Martin Lewicki]

Simply installed from the repository as you see here.

On Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 4:09:09 PM UTC+9:30 Alexander V. Wolf wrote:

[Martin Lewicki]

Alex

I installed it directly from the repository via Software Manager

Martin

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[Alexander V. Wolf]

Ouch, you are use the flatpak package of Stellarium - of course you can’t find directory /usr/share/stellarium 

суббота, 16 августа 2025 г. в 01:20:43 UTC+7, Martin Lewicki:

[David Eckhardt]

Your email came through OK, Gil

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[Paul Gilmartin]

On 8/14/25 17:53, Martin Lewicki wrote:
> My posts are not getting through. Pleas confirm.
>

> ...
Do you see your messages in?:
<https://groups.google.com/g/stellarium>

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[Martin Lewicki]

So that was the  problem. Alex pointing me to  the fact that  landscape can be installed form GUI.