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Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

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Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1 was created by Tarif Santo

Hi,
I wonder if it is possible to install Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1 or 17.2. I do use Linux mint17.1 and tried installing kstars-bleeding. But the command returns error: Unable to locate package kstars-bleeding. Can anyone suggest me what to do?

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

Mint based on Ubuntu 14.04 and recent KStars requires 15.04 or higher. You're best bet is to install Kubuntu 15.10
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Replied by Charles Wright on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

It's unfortunate that the preferred development and installation environment seems to be a distribution that does not have long term support.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

KStars/Ekos ARE available on Mint, just not the latest version! You can download Ekos VM and run it in Mint if you'd like to use this option.
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Replied by Tarif Santo on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

OK Thanks for the help. But Ekos VM should be installed on a Virtual environment, what I understand, right?. It is possible to install Kstars and INDI on any ubuntu based distribution, at least I am able to do that on my Linux mint. Since the problem is with the Ekos installation, is it possible to install that using the source code? If yes, How?
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

Ekos VM is a virtual machine that can be opened in Oracle's VirtualBox which you can download for free.

Latest INDI from PPA is already available for 14.04 LTS/Mint, but the issue is that KStars depends on Qt/KDE 5, which is NOT available in 14.04. Theoretically, you can compile Qt/KDE 5 on Mint 17, and then compile KStars against Qt/KDE 5, but it is very difficult to do so.
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Replied by Charles Wright on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

So one could install INDI on the host computer and use that to connect to all hardware, while using kstars from the VM on the same host to connect to the INDI server. Correct?
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Replied by Charles Wright on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

I'm wondering what is missing from the Linux Mint 17.* / Ubuntu 14.04 that prevents Qt5 development. When I open Synaptic and search for "libqt5", there is a list of 71 different packages all starting with "libqt5". What is it missing?
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

KStars requires KDE Frameworks 5 which AFAIK is not available on 14.04.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1


Correct.
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Replied by Charles Wright on topic Installing Kstars, INDI and Ekos on Linux mint17.1

I have tried the VM with KStars and it's much better than I expected. Of course it's nice to have a fast machine with a lot of RAM :). I have other questions but will post in appropriate forum.

Charles
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