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Install INDI on Raspberry Pi

Stable Release

You can install INDI core & INDI 3rd party drivers on Raspberry Pi OS / Debian Trixie (arm64). If you plan to use KStars as your INDI client, then it is recommended to install the KStars Flatpak, which is available for all Linux distributions. The Flatpak already includes INDI core and INDI 3rd party drivers. If you do not want to install KStars, then you can install INDI directly using the following commands:

curl -fsSL https://astroberry.io/debian/astroberry.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/astroberry.gpg
curl -fsSL https://astroberry.io/debian/astroberry.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/astroberry.sources
sudo apt update

After update is complete, you can install INDI and optionally Ekos:

  1. To Install INDI Library including all 3rd party drivers:

    sudo apt install indi-3rdparty-drivers gsc
  2. To install latest Ekos:

    sudo apt install indi-3rdparty-drivers kstars-bleeding
  3. To install only INDI Library with basic drivers:

    sudo apt install libindi1 indi-bin

Common Errors

If you receive an error about some package trying to overwrite another, try this:

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -f install