[Marble-devel] Unable to use Natural Earth downloaded maps

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Thu, 12 Dec 2013 03:54:47 +0200, Shriramana Sharma  
<samjnaa at gmail.com>:

> Hello. I am using Kubuntu Saucy with default KDE version 4.11.2 and
> Marble 1.6.2.
>
> I tried to download the Natural Earth maps from
> http://marble.kde.org/maps.php but the links there are invalid so I
> had to manually go to http://files.kde.org/marble/newstuff/maps/ and
> downloaded the tar.gz files there.
>
> I untarred and put them under ~/.local/share/marble/maps/earth i.e.
> now i have under maps/earth subdirs like naturalearth etc. Now if I
> load up Marble I see the names Natural Earth etc under the Map View
> pane Theme section, but if I select any of them, I'm only getting a
> dark earth with only clouds visible (and some shaded topography below
> the clouds).
>
> BTW the files which I downloaded from the newstuff URL above are:
>
> naturalearth2layered-marblemap.tar.gz
> naturalearth2shading-marblemap.tar.gz  naturalearth-marblemap.tar.gz
>
> At the same time I also downloaded blackmarble-marblemap.tar.gz and
> that one is working fine. Only the naturalearth ones are not working.
>
> Please help.
>

Hi,

Please use standard methods (File → Download Maps... (Ctrl+N)) to download  
and install Marble maps.

Works perfectly here, btw (Marble from git/master, KDE 4.10.5, Mageia 3).

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yuri