The command "sudo apt-get --fix-broken install" appears to be working better to day - it fixed something. I went ahead and installed KSTARS and that seem to go well though something is still incomplete or broken..

When I try to run KSTARS, the program crashes. A crash log was uploaded but I'm not sue to whom - to the KSTARS developers or to Ubuntu.

The crash log is large and binary. Does KSTARS generate a log I can read somewhere?

Hello John,

You didn't say whether you've read the link I sent. That link shows chapter and verse the method to install with Ubuntu 20.04.

That said, your success with the command to fix "broken install" shows that something was not right in the back end.

The crash log is created locally. You'll need to upload it as a zip or similar for anyone to comment.

Damian

I did read the link. Apart from the stuff with GPS, it's doing the same as I did.

I could upload the ZIP, but how about I try a different Linux? Any Linux is fine but I don't want to pay for something commercial until I see it work. Debugging Linux apps is a rat hole I would rather avoid.

What's the development operating system? Surely that has to be reliable.

J

Ubuntu 20.04 works fine with this as I understand 22 does.

After you install the OS and before you clone Jasem's PPA, did you run the following to update to latest packages ?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Then do the indi / kstars stuff.

I didn't do the upgrade step. I'll strip down and start again.

It's painful to redo but worth a try.

I also noticed that your install string is different.

Mine is:
sudo apt-get install indi-full kstars-bleeding

but yours is:
sudo apt-get install indi-full gsc

I don't know what the package gsc is but I didn't use it. Also you''re missing the kstars package, which contains EKOS.

I also do an update after adding Jasem's PPA.

If all else fails you could try my method and see if you fare any better.

Thanks. It's a project for this evening. I'll let you know what happens.

I too am having problems downloading and installing indi/kstars. I hav eadded the mutlaqja repository but when I attempt:

sudo apt-get update I get the following response and a refusal to download any files. I'm using Linux Mint 20.

W: GPG error: ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 487CEC2B3F33A288
E: The repository 'ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure( manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Help would be gratefully received.

Hi Damian,

GSC is the package that allows the use of simulators in kstars. If you don't use simulators for testing you don't need it.

Cheers

I'm trying to use Ubuntu for the sake of conformity. I don't know what the different between Mint and Ubuntu is, but as I mentioned earlier, debugging someone else's code on any Linux is a bitch.

Further to earlier post:-

Re-installing the mutlaqja repository cures the problem. The error was somehow associated with the previous apt-add-repository although the repository information was correct i.e. identical to the information on another computer where apt update and install worked.

Sorry if I wasted anyone's time.

A bit of success!

I failed to reload Ubuntu easily - the installation USB stick seems to detect the same rev of Ubuntu already running on the main drive and keeps deferring to it.

I loaded openSuse instead. It was a slow load but went in no bother, and I like the neat way the OS runs; it seems very complete and professional. The INDI instructions only went as far as installing a repository, but I found KSTARS in it, it installed easily and came up perfectly!

Now the challenge will be to find drivers that work for my telescope head. It's a Meade LXD75 and is not listed in KSTARS. I plan to try the LX200 drivers.

Does anyone have a source pack for the LXD drivers that I could build for openSUSE?