Comments on: Installing KStars and Ekos on Raspberry Pi 5

By: astroisk

astroisk — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:58:47 +0000

In reply to José Miguel. Hi José, this was due to the presence of the libindi-dev package in the prerequisites in Step 3 which is now out of date. This package isn't needed if you are building INDI from the source following our guide, so I have removed it from the prerequisites and I understand it is now working for you :)

By: José Miguel

José Miguel — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:52:33 +0000

Yesterday, I tried to do a clean installation of INDI and kStars and aparently everything was fine. However, after opening kStars, I missed the EKOS button and also the EKOS and INDI tabs in the kStars configuration menu.

By: astroisk

astroisk — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:07:54 +0000

UPDATE: The apt packaged version 3.6.2 of KStars was getting out of date and caused problems for the PHD2 build as it included an older version of INDI. I have now updated this post to compile KStars from source code, with INDI compiled in advance following the INDI post on this site. This delivers the latest 3.7.3 Beta version of KStars.

By: astroisk

astroisk — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:48:53 +0000

In reply to Didier DERAEDT. Bonjour Didier, nous n'avons pas connaissance de problèmes de ce genre. Avez-vous des journaux d'INDIServer ou de KStars ? Quelle est votre configuration matérielle ?

By: Didier DERAEDT

Didier DERAEDT — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:26:03 +0000

Bonjour,
l’installation s’est bien déroulée. Indiserver se lance mais se bloque. Si je relance, c’est Kstars et Ekos qui se plante et disparaissent. avez vous une idée sur ce problème?
cordialement
Didier

By: astroisk

astroisk — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:57 +0000

In reply to Martin. That's a good question Martin. According to the Kstars release notice, version 3.7.0 was released on 5th April 2024, but the official Debian repository and the Flatpak repository are still giving version 3.6.6, even though Flatpak is mentioned on the 3.7.0 release notice. So the options would be to wait for the official repositories to update, go for the PPA version (kstars-bleeding), or compile from source. I will take a look and see what the implications are for the latter two.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:16:11 +0000

Thank you very much for the great instructions!
I have though a question, the latest version of KSTARS has the Version 3.7.0, but when I install from here I get the “older” version 3.6.6, how can upgrade to the latest version ??

Thank you

By: astroisk

astroisk — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:44:26 +0000

In reply to jessastro. Thanks for the feedback, glad you found them useful.

By: jessastro

jessastro — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:09:43 +0000

Thanks for all the great instructions! You’ve put together really thorough and easy to follow guides, and they’ve been so helpful in setting up my Pi 5.