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