Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$ ln -s /usr/local/share/kservice
kservices5/ kservicetypes5/
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$ ln -s /usr/local/share/kservice
kservices5/ kservicetypes5/
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$ ln -s ~/usr/local/share/kstars/* ~/Library/Application\ Support/kstars/
ln: /Users/stephane/Library/Application Support/kstars/: No such file or directory
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$

Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$ mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/kstars
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$ ln -s ~/usr/local/share/kstars/* ~/Library/Application\ Support/kstars/
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars stephane$

It is a success build now. I have Kstars/Ekos running on the Mac.

I have taken notes of the entire installation, from start to finish.

I need to take some time now and review the install process, and write a document for the Sierra users.

That is exciting!! But you are not done yet

Did you get gsc installed yet? My instructions in there work pretty well. It is very useful for getting the simulators running.

Astrometry.net? I didn't write any instructions for that, but if you install it from home-brew, and put the index files in ~/Library/Application Support/Astrometry and then edit the config file in /usr/local/Cellar/astrometry-net/0.67_2/etc to reflect that path for the index files, and finally set the paths correctly in KStars, it should work.

XPlanet? I just followed the directions on the website and it worked. But, I don't really know what it does. I see that it has the ability to put what is on kstars on my background for my desktop, but that is really all I have seen with it installed. Might be useful or not, I really cannot tell.

And one other issue is the new stuff downloader. I was working on this problem last week. I got it working in the emerge version, but I'm not sure about the other yet. There are two environment variables that I determined need to be set properly (exported) before running kstars and then magically it worked. In the emerge version those were:

export PATH=~/kf/bin
export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=~/kf/lib/plugins

Your instructions may also work better for all of us, because remember I tried SOOO many things to get this up and running in the first place. I don't know what is installed or not installed on my computer anymore and I have 2 different versions of the installation at the same time. I don't know if they are conflicting or not. I encountered the kinds of errors that you saw over the last couple of days for the last couple of months. So I don't have any idea why anything works anymore

The bad news is, we may be banging our heads against a wall, but the good news is that according to Physics, the wall does move when we do!

I need to do the gsc part.


As for xplanet, the install as straight forward. But it's not tested yet.

Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars-build stephane$ brew search xplanet
xplanet xplanetfx
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars-build stephane$ brew install xplanet
==> Installing dependencies for xplanet: giflib
==> Installing xplanet dependency: giflib
==> Downloading homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/giflib-4.2....erra.bottle.1.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring giflib-4.2.3.sierra.bottle.1.tar.gz
/usr/local/Cellar/giflib/4.2.3: 39 files, 603.4K
==> Installing xplanet
==> Downloading homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/xplanet-1.3.1.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring xplanet-1.3.1.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
/usr/local/Cellar/xplanet/1.3.1: 55 files, 2.3M
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:kstars-build stephane$

I should probably try following my own instructions on a fresh computer. . . or maybe I will do it with your revisions

But does it do anything that you can tell?

I went back through and couldn't find this - do we have a workaround for the indiserver problem on sierra, where KStars can't find it when starting ekos?

For me the new stuff downloader was a bit of a priority because I wanted to download the images and larger catalogs. But for the longest time, I just couldn't solve the problem. Emerge helped me fix it I think

no idea how to use it to be honest

I don't think the issue is sierra so much as its just a pain in the rear to install due to the dependencies needing to be in the right places and all.