Where do I find this Quickstart pdf?

Ok, Python installed:

Homebrew installed
Python3 installed
Astropy will install when you click Ok

But Astropy fails to install when I press OK, so how do I install it manually?

At the command line, it should be either

pip install astropy

Or

pip3 install astropy

What happens when you either type

which pip

or

which pip3
?

pip didn't work, but pip3 did!

Ok, everything downloaded fine, and in OSX, the Align Module's Astrimetry.net's SETUP button shows that everything is installed.
If I use the online saver, all works.
But off-line it fails. It never failed before I upgraded.


Peter

Could you post the error message?

Well to be fair, I need to test it in the field with my real gear and not in my living room using simulated gear.
The problem is getting a clear sky here on the equator in east Africa, and arranging armed rangers to come out with me to my dark sky site in the bush. I do not want to get eaten. I will try this weekend.

Peter

So I would definitely recommend making sure everything works with simulators before going out in the field.

I can’t do much at the moment because I am on vacation right now and don’t have very good internet, which is why it has taken me awhile to respond. But I will be able to do more after the 14th of July.

I would like to know why the automated installer failed to install astropy, because it should have worked unless you have something odd about your python installation.

I would recommend checking to see that it works now using the ccd and telescope simulators in offline mode. If it doesn’t, check to see that the index files are installed gsc is installed, and where python3 is installed. If there is a problem, Ekos should print the error messages to the log now because I changed it. You should not have to paste the commands to terminal anymore.

I just updated to 3.1 tonight, and ran into the same issue. When attempting to install the software through the button, it failed on the first step. "Python failed to install". I hadn't read this thread yet, so I didn't attempt to do it again before reverting back to 3.0.

The first step is installing homebrew. Are you saying that didn’t work or are you saying brew install python didn’t work?

I'm not really sure, I didn't see any progress indicator or system messages. But Ekos said "Python failed to install". So I don't specifically know where it failed.

OK, i figured it out. I already had Python 3 installed through another means, so it was somehow causing the script to fail from within EKOS. I had to create a link to brew from my install, and that still caused the script to not work. So then I told brew to reinstall python. After doing that, the EKSO script finished working to install the other component, and plate solving now works.