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

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Shriramana,

first of, thanks for reporting this problem. Too many of such things get 
unnoticed because people assume someone else will report/fix them.

The naturalearth-*.zip files were indeed missing, I added them now.

When the manual installation fails, I suspect that either permissions 
are wrong (unlikely to happen cause you'd have to extract as a different 
user or via sudo) or the files ended up in a wrong directory. Marble 
expects the extraction to happen in ~/.local/share/marble/maps/ (the 
$planet/$themename/ structure is part of the .tar.gz/.zip).

Regards,
Dennis

Am 13.12.2013 01:29, schrieb Shriramana Sharma:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:45 PM, tackat at t-online.de 
> <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:
>> actually the real source for all versions starting from KDE 4.5 is
>> 
>> http://marble.kde.org/maps-4.5.php
> 
> Hm it would be better if this were mentioned somewhere...
> 
>> And that also doesn't have the download issue.
>> Totally missed that. Hope that clears it up.
> 
> Well even now if I download the -4.5.zip files manually and expand to
> the ~/.local/share/ thing, the same problem exists, but now my network
> problem seems to have gotten right so I could download from within the
> app itself.
> 
> Of course, the app did save to the .local/share location, and I
> kdiff3-ed the trees of the -4.5.zip download versus this, and all I
> found was a couple of extra lines in the within-app-downloaded dgml
> file:
> 
> <storageLayout maximumTileLevel="1"/>
> <blending name="CloudsBlending" />
> 
> and a few missing .directory files. I am not sure how this difference
> makes it so that the within-app-downloaded version works whereas the
> other does not...