But it would be nice to know what happened

It would, and I intend to find out, all I know is I had the issue before and Jasem sorted it, and all he did was re built it, and I Have tried that four times now...
Others I know have had the same issue yesterday, and rebuilt completely and all is now good...so maybe I will ha e to start from scratch with your script and re build.
It’s annoying as I altered your script to suit my needs and if I do a new git pull, it will undo all the changes I made...
I have been just re building Kstars and INdI, but think will have to do it all again...

I'm on raspbian. Raspberry Pi 4 and relearning how to go about things without PPA.
With that in mind, could I get advice on the steps required to rebuild kstars?
I had a hard time finding instructions on the forum.

You can’t use PPA with raspbian, you Have to build from Source....or use @rlancaste script, it’s excellent...

github.com/rlancaste/AstroPi3

Yes. That was the point, Without PPA, what are the steps necessary to clean/rebuild Kstars from scratch.
Although I ended up just re-running the script, it seems inefficient for rebuilding only KStars. Good news is it resolved the crashing.

All good on my Raspian + pi4B after latest git pull.

Hi guys, is it good to run manjaro arm with kstars and rpi4B? what is the pros and cons if compare with raspbian? Any advice?

Regards,
Tom

I’m not done with the Manjaro script yet. I wouldn’t recommend it yet. There were build errors in KStars and INDI. It is related to building certain drivers in 64 bit. I got some of it corrected in the INDI repo now, but I have to do a complete rebuild make some changes so that it can build from scratch to see if it is fixed.

That’s good news. Note that rerunning the script actually isn’t that inefficient because it doesn’t do most of the things again once they are already done, it just checks and prints a message saying it’s done already.

I do plan to take the rebuild code out of the main script and put it in a separate subscript so it can be run separately if you want to rebuild the Astro software again. It will still be run by the main script but there would be the option to just run that.

If you want to see the steps just look in the script. I have loads of documentation explaining it.

Thanks for the advice. I think til now IMHO Raspian buster still very stable in rpi4. This morning i saw a major buster kernel and firmware including ffmpeg update. Looks like RPI foundation really doing something behind the scene now. Good for us.

Tom

First time running the script was time-consuming. But after that, it is fast for rebuilding after git pull.

Tom

I would like to 2nd the request for PHDlogviewer compilation to be worked into the script. I was unable to get past compiling wxformbuilder which is required to compile phdlogviewer.

Thank you.
Andrew