I just wrote some preliminary instructions. See what you guys think. There are no pictures yet, and these instructions will almost certainly change as we improve things and automate things. But I think right now this will get you set up and running on a Mac that has not run Jamie's script and has not run KStars before. Please let me know what you think and if there are any problems
Instructions for installing KStars on your Mac.
1. Download the DMG file from this link
drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ivMJINsdQ8SHp...cGc/view?usp=sharing and double click on it to mount it.
2. Drag the KStars.app application bundle to your /Applications folder or anywhere you would like to put it on your Mac. If you would like to run Astrometry to plate-solve images, please do not put it in a folder that has a space anywhere in the file path.
3. Double click on the KStars.app. On the first run, several things will happen that should not happen later if you run it again.
a. A dialog box should pop up saying that KStars was downloaded from the internet. Click ok to run it.
b. A dialog box might pop up saying it is from an unidentified developer. You should be able to right-click (ctrl-click) and select “Open” from the top of the contextual menu to get KStars to open. If you still cannot run it, then you may need to change your security setting in System Preferences.
c. If you have not had KStars installed before, then KStars will need to copy the data directory into your Library folder. Answer the questions in the dialog boxes to get it configured the way you want it.
4. KStars should now be working well. The rest of these steps are optional.
5. If you want to run gsc to get “stars" in the CCD simulator, you just need to unzip this zip file drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ivMJINsdQ8cDh...Z0E/view?usp=sharing and copy the resulting folder into ~/Library/Application Support/kstars/ (assuming you have run KStars once to get the folder created and files copied).
6. If you want to run astrometry to plate-solve images, you need to make sure the target machine has python installed, has pip, has pyfits, and has netpbm. Also you will need to download the appropriate index files for your particular setup.
a. If your machine does not have python (most should), you can use this installer:
www.python.org/downloads/ :
www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/python-2.7.13-macosx10.6.pkg If you run this step, you will not need to run step b.
b. For some reason, pip is not installed by default in the OSX version of Python; If you don’t have it installed and did not run the package installer above, you can get pip at
bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py or you should be able to run this: " sudo easy_install pip “
c. If you don’t have pyfits installed yet, run this command from the Terminal:
pip install pyfits
d. If you don’t have netpbm installed yet, run these two commands from the terminal:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
brew install netpbm