wvreeven wrote: I understand and agree with you that it is not easy and actually cumbersome to get KStars and Ekos running on a system that's not Ubuntu. I merely wanted to point out the risks of doing it this way. It is good to know that a workable system can be created by using the PPAs on Debian. Fingers crossed that this keeps on working in the future but unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.

EDIT: By the way I am not trying to point fingers to anyone about this. I am merely trying to state that it requires a lot of effort. Which should make all of us realise the tremendous amount of work going into this free-of-charge project for which I am very grateful!!!

Tried to update my opening post with your info about the risks of that approach, but somehow the forum does not allow me to edit the post. Anyway thank for info and explanation.

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