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Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

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Now the offline plate solver is not working for me was created by Jamie Smith

I have this working with the simulator the other day, But now it is failing.

When I try to solve the output from the CCD simulator I get the following error with verbose enabled in the log:
2016-12-05T19:35:10 Solver failed. Try again.
2016-12-05T19:35:10 Reading input file 1 of 1: "/tmp/fitsnH6654"...
2016-12-05T19:35:10 /usr/local/astrometry/bin/solve-field --no-verify --no-plots --resort --downsample 2 -O -L 26.5497 -H 36.6805 -u aw -3 23.4917 -4 30.5514 -5 30 -W /tmp/solution.wcs /tmp/fitsnH6654
2016-12-05T19:35:10 Starting solver...
2016-12-05T19:35:10 Image received.
2016-12-05T19:35:09 Capturing image...
When I try to run that command by hand I get this error:
/usr/local/astrometry/bin/solve-field --no-verify --no-plots --resort --downsample 2 -O -L 26.5497 -H 36.6805 -u aw -3 23.4917 -4 30.5514 -5 30 -W /tmp/solution.wcs /tmp/fitsnH6654
Reading input file 1 of 1: "/tmp/fitsnH6654"...
Usage: image2pnm [options]
 
image2pnm: error: no such option: --mydir
augment-xylist.c:589:backtick Failed to run command: /usr/local/astrometry/bin/image2pnm --infile /tmp/fitsnH6654 --uncompressed-outfile /tmp/tmp.uncompressed.gjITLS --outfile /tmp/tmp.ppm.zved0D --ppm --mydir /usr/local/astrometry/bin/solve-field
 ioutils.c:567:run_command_get_outputs Command failed: return value 2
My options for the plate solver in the Ekos screen are
--no-verify --no-plots --resort --downsample 2 -O -L 26.5497 -H 36.6805 -u aw -3 23.4917 -4 30.5514 -5 30
5 years 9 months ago #12947

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Replied by Jamie Smith on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

@knro I see that you posted a similar question on the astrometry.net github repo, I did in fact have multiple versions laying around. I cleaned up a bunch of the old ones and it seems better now.

try:
sudo find / -name image2pnm\*
/home/jamie/projects/astrometry.net/util/image2pnm.py
/home/jamie/projects/astrometry.net/bin/image2pnm
/usr/local/astrometry/bin/image2pnm
/usr/local/astrometry/lib/python/astrometry/util/image2pnm.py
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Replied by Alex Varakin on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

I had exactly the same issue.
I fixed it by adding --no-fits2fits to command line.
In my case I had the issue with "Load and Slew" which does not have settings for configuring the command line, so I had to change the source code and recompile the program.
I am glad that I spent a cloudy night fetching the source code and compiling the program, so fixing this issue took few minutes this clear night B)

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

and I just removed "--no-fits2fits" recently since it was dropped from recent builds of astrometry.net, looks like it is required in _current_ builds. I contacted Dustin over at astrometry.net to inquire about what to to do and hopefully it will be fixed soon.
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Replied by Christian on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

Yes --no-fits2fits is required at least until 0.67 due to a known bug in pyfits/astropy.io.fits :( And it'll take some time until newer astrometry will reach the distributions repositories.

EDIT: The fits2fits bug groups.google.com/d/msg/astrometry/gtlRbaHnaKc/vgxT1PCrAgAJ
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

Is there a reliable way to figure out what astrometry.net version is currently installed? I haven't researched how to do this yet so if anyone knows a quick way I can do it programatically from KStars then that's great. Some header file?
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Replied by Alex Varakin on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

What happens with new builds of astrometry if --no-fits2fits is passed - does it crash?
As a workaround, would it be possible to allow user to configure command line params for "Load and Slew"?
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Replied by Jamie Smith on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

It doesn't crash, it just fails.

Do you mean a separate command?
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Replied by nMAC on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

Jasem, just a thought, maybe executing a shell command to query the package database:

dpkg -s astrometry.net | grep Version | cut -d ':' -f 2
or
apt-cache policy astrometry.net | grep Version | cut -d ':' -f 2

but that involves calling command line.Mine retreaves: 0.67+dfsg-1
I have not seen any files we could search for it.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Now the offline plate solver is not working for me

Can't use that, that's Debian specific. I found a way to figure out the version, but it only works for offline solver, not remote/online.. so I decided I'll just leave --no-fits2fits back in the option and add a warning that the user should remove it for astrometry.net version 0.68 or above. Maybe in 17.04 or 17.10 when 0.68 is used I'll completely remove it.
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