I installed using the builds at https://launchpad.net/~stellarium/+archive/stellarium-releases/+sourcepub/2298875/+listing-archive-extra Stellarium's log file is attached. Terminal window output is: Using default graphics system specified at build time: raster ------------------------------------------------------- [ This is Stellarium 0.11.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ] [ Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Fabien Chereau et al ] ------------------------------------------------------- Writing log file to: "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/log.txt" File search paths: 0 . "/home/mpopp/.stellarium" 1 . "/usr/share/stellarium" Config file is: "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/config.ini" QPixmap::handle(): Pixmap is not an X11 class pixmap OpenGL supported version: "3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13" Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2" Cache directory is: "/home/mpopp/.cache/stellarium/stellarium" Sky language is "en_US" Application language is "en_US" Loading Solar System data ... Loaded 64 / 64 planet orbits from "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/data/ssystem.ini" Loading star data ... "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013" "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999" "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416" "Loading "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064" "Loading "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/stars/default/stars_4_1v0_0.cat": 4_1v0_0; 1725497" "Loading "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/stars/default/stars_5_2v0_0.cat": 5_2v0_0; 7669011" "Loading "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/stars/default/stars_6_2v0_0.cat": 6_2v0_0; 26615233" "Loading "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/stars/default/stars_7_2v0_0.cat": 7_2v0_0; 57826266" "Loading "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/stars/default/stars_8_2v0_0.cat": 8_2v0_0; 116923084" Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 8 navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06 Loaded 10051 NGC records Loading NGC name data ... Loaded 223 / 223 NGC name records successfully Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab" Loaded 230 / 230 common star names Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab" Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western" Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western" Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names Loading constellation boundary data ... Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments Creating GUI ... Loaded plugin "AngleMeasure" . AngleMeasure plugin - press control-A to toggle angle measure mode Loaded plugin "Oculars" . Ocular plugin - press Command-O to toggle eyepiece view mode. Press ALT-o for configuration. Oculars::validateIniFile ocular.ini exists at: "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/modules/Oculars/ocular.ini" . Checking version... Oculars::validateIniFile found existing ini file version 2 Loaded plugin "Satellites" . Satellites::getJsonFileVersion() version from file: "0.7.1" Satellites::init using satellite.json file: "/home/mpopp/.stellarium/modules/Satellites/satellites.json" Loaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor" . Using the ssystem.ini file that already exists in the user directory... Loaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration" . ASSERT: "d==0 || std::fabs(v.lengthSquared()-1.)<0.0000001" in file /build/buildd/stellarium-0.11.2/src/core/StelSphereGeometry.hpp, line 300 Aborted