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Installing on Kubuntu

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Installing on Kubuntu was created by Tim

I've just installed
Ubuntu 20.10
on my new laptop. It seems that the package for indi is broken on this distro. When I tried to use Synaptic Package Manager to install say indi-gphoto I get the message

'indi-gphoto:
Depends: libcfitsio8 (>=3.470~) but it is not installable'

Any idea as to when this might be fixed. I'm trying to switch from ASCOM to Indi , thus ditching windows, and this is causing a showstopper at the moment.

Thanks

Tim
3 years 4 months ago #63403

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Replied by Tim on topic Installing on Kubuntu

indi-qhy using synaptic package manager gives the following message

"indi-qhy:

Package indi-qhy has no available version, but exists in the database."
3 years 4 months ago #63421

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Replied by Andrew on topic Installing on Kubuntu

Do not use the synaptic package manager to install INDI and KStars.
Instead follow the directions to install the Stable Release found here to use the correct PPA Repository.
www.indilib.org/get-indi/download-ubuntu.html
3 years 4 months ago #63423

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Replied by Tim on topic Installing on Kubuntu

Thank you for the suggestion. I've been away, hence the late reply.

I've tried following the webpage that was linked to by cutting and pasting each line into Konsole. I got to "sudo apt-get install indi-full gsc" and the response was "E: Unable to locate package gsc".
Could someone point to where I'm going wrong please. Here's the total output from Konsole
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa
[sudo] password for tim: 
Repository: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu/ groovy main'
Description:
Latest INDI Library and drivers!
 
This PPA is for stable Ekos & INDI drivers releases.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mutlaqja/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Found existing deb entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-ppa-groovy.list
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-ppa-groovy.list
Found existing deb-src entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-ppa-groovy.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-ppa-groovy.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-ppa.gpg with fingerprint 7DA5C2D272B4C6F8E7CEA9C6487CEC2B3F33A288
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease [110 kB] 
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu groovy InRelease        
Get:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease [110 kB]
Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Get:8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Hit:6 http://vega.ap-i.net/apt unstable InRelease        
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,676 B]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [1,800 B]
Get:11 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [15.6 kB]
Get:12 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [10.7 kB]
Get:13 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [532 B]
Fetched 355 kB in 1s (258 kB/s)            
Reading package lists... Done
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease         
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease          
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu groovy InRelease        
Hit:7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease
Hit:8 http://vega.ap-i.net/apt unstable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ sudo apt-get install indi-full gsc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gsc
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ 
 
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Replied by Alfred on topic Installing on Kubuntu

If I see it correctly, GSC is provided by the indi-nightly repository so you have to add this to your repository list first. I suspect GSC *should* be provided by the stable repository though.
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3 years 4 months ago #63605

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Replied by Tim on topic Installing on Kubuntu

I've tried the suggestion to add the nightly ppa and get the same result. Here's the output from that attempt
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/indinightly
[sudo] password for tim: 
Repository: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu/ groovy main'
Description:
This PPA is for nightly UNSTABLE Ekos & INDI drivers builds. This is NOT intended for production use, it is only available for testing.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mutlaqja/+archive/ubuntu/indinightly
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Found existing deb entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-indinightly-groovy.list
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-indinightly-groovy.list
Found existing deb-src entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-indinightly-groovy.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-indinightly-groovy.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mutlaqja-ubuntu-indinightly.gpg with fingerprint 7DA5C2D272B4C6F8E7CEA9C6487CEC2B3F33A288
Hit:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease [110 kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu groovy InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease [110 kB] 
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu groovy InRelease        
Hit:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Get:8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages [5,532 B]
Get:10 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [15.6 kB]
Get:11 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [10.7 kB]
Get:12 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [20.4 kB]
Get:7 http://vega.ap-i.net/apt unstable InRelease [3,622 B]                
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,676 B]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [1,796 B]
Get:15 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [532 B]
Get:16 http://vega.ap-i.net/apt unstable/main i386 Packages [2,129 B]      
Get:17 http://vega.ap-i.net/apt unstable/main amd64 Packages [2,120 B]     
Fetched 406 kB in 7s (62.2 kB/s)                                           
Reading package lists... Done
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu groovy InRelease
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu groovy InRelease                 
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates InRelease         
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu groovy InRelease        
Hit:6 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-backports InRelease       
Hit:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-security InRelease          
Hit:8 http://vega.ap-i.net/apt unstable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ sudo apt-get install indi-full gsc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gsc
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ ^C
tim@Tim-TUF:~$ 
 
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Replied by Alfred on topic Installing on Kubuntu

Sorry to hear it didn't work for you. I've no idea what's going wrong.
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Replied by Alfred on topic Installing on Kubuntu

Oh, I see GSC is missing for 20.10!
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Replied by Tim on topic Installing on Kubuntu

I assume that's why I've been having the other failures as well. indi-qhy and libcfitsio8.
I've got 20.10 as this is a brand new laptop and so I just installed the latest version as it adresses some of the hardware issues such as backlit keyboard and the 2 graphics cards setup. So far Kubuntu has worked very well and the installation was seamless. I guess I have to wait for Indi to catch up. In the meantime I'll just boot into Windows for my observing and use ASCOM instead. It'll be a while until I'm INDI ready in any case as I'll have to write a driver for my dome rotation system that I'm making. Currently totally refactoring the arduino code that runs that !
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Replied by Tim on topic Installing on Kubuntu

Any news as to when I can fully install Indi on Ubuntu 20.10. GSC is still missing for example
Thanks
Tim
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Installing on Kubuntu

I just started the build for 20.10, should be available in a couple of hours.
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Replied by Tim on topic Installing on Kubuntu

Thank-you very much. That's great news
I have a fair bit of work to do before I can go live with it in my observatory. For one thing I have to write an Indi driver for my homebrew dome rotation system. I've written an ASCOM one so hopefully I can steal a lot of the logic from there :)

Excited to be able to get started though
Tim
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