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Setting up astro software under Manjaro (or Arch) Linux

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Hi,

Manjaro distribution is currently becoming one of the most popular distributions. According to Distrowatch, it is the most popular distribution and for a good reason: it is very easy to install, provides access to very recent packages and at the same time it is pretty stable. I am running it for about a year and am very happy so far.
So I decided to try to setup all the astronomy software I use under Manjaro. It turned out pretty simple once I figured out few issues. I wrote a script which should do the whole thing without much effort. It installs KSstars/Ekos, PHD2, astrometry, ccdciel, SkyChart, indi and sextractor (which is highly recommended to help with plate solving).
Here is the script:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S --needed kstars breeze-icons yaourt arduino binutils patch cmake make libraw libindi wxgtk2 gpsd gcc

yaourt -Sya --noconfirm ccdciel
yaourt -Sya --noconfirm libindi_3rdparty
yaourt -Sya --noconfirm open-phd-guiding-git
yaourt -Sya --noconfirm skychart
yaourt -Sya sextractor-bin
yaourt -Sya astrometry.net

wget broiler.astrometry.net/\~dstn/4100/index-4107.fits
wget broiler.astrometry.net/\~dstn/4100/index-4108.fits
wget broiler.astrometry.net/\~dstn/4100/index-4109.fits
sudo mv index-410[789].fits /usr/share/astrometry/data

Please let me know what you think.

Alex
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5 years 8 months ago #27542

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Excellent! So are those packages available in AUR or something? We can add Arch & Derivatives section to the download section of the site if we get more info.
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Ok I added it!

indilib.org/download/arch.html

Let me know if you want to make further changes to this! I'm also download Manjero KDE edition now and going to give it a spin in the VM.
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Last edit: 5 years 8 months ago by Jasem Mutlaq.
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Some of them are in the main repo like KStars but rest are in AUR.

Alex
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Hello Jasem - have been waiting for libindi_3rdparty to be available for ARM64 and it looks like you've done it!

I foundarm64 build of libindi 1.9.3~202111251818~ubuntu20.04.1 in ubuntu focal RELEASECan you port this to Manjaro / PKG or make it available on GitHub or as .deb?

Yours in hope and thanks for KStars/INDI and all your work.

Best
R
 
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