SUMMARY I installed this version of KStars from the SNAP store in Ubuntu. It identifies itself as version 3.7.7 Beta, not available on your droplist. (Why is Ubuntu SNAP Store installing a Beta???? You got me!) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. From Ubuntu Files app, select a FITS file and select Open With KStars. It opens and displays in the FITS Viewer. 2. From the FITS Viewer, select File Open to open another FITS file. 3. OBSERVED RESULT KStars crashes immediately before it can ask what file it wants to open. EXPECTED RESULT KStars FITS viewer opens the second file. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window) Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 24.04.2 KDE Plasma Version: not sure where to find this. KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 built against 6.8.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Platform is a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 v2 with an Nvidia RTX 3500 Ada Gen 2 GPU. KStars will not launch from the command line: $ kstars Content snap command-chain for /snap/kstars/142/gpu-2404/bin/gpu-2404-provider-wrapper not found: ensure slot is connected
Deleted the 3.7.7 beta. Installed 3.7.6 from the command line. The problem exists there as well on this system. 3.7.6, though, will launch from the command line without error.
Problem exists on 3.7.6 and 3.7.7 beta
Cannot reproduce this issue here. Must be an issue with the snap itself, which we don't maintain ourselves.
Yah, SNAP have screwed the pooch on KStars. I submitted an issue on Ask Ubuntu and got a bunch of blithering nonsense from them: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1546996/snap-install-of-kstars-installs-the-wrong-version Instead, I found your recommendation on https://kstars.kde.org/download/ "Under Ubuntu/Mint, you can install the latest KStars by typing the following commands in the console: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indi-full kstars-bleeding" This works as it should.
Sadly, though, the installation of 3.7.7 through the ppa:mutlaqja/ppa somehow managed to remove siril from my system. I cannot reinstall it. $ siril Command 'siril' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install siril $ sudo apt install siril Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libxisf : Conflicts: libxisf0 but 0.2.8-1 is to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. It seems that the Siril repository (https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/lock042/siril/ubuntu/) and the KStars repository index (https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu/) are out of synch with each other. Can someone help resolve this?
CRAP! I tried removing kstars and now I could neither install siril nor kstars!!!!!
I had to uninstall Kstars and Siril as well as the dependency libxisf. Then I could reinstall siril. But I won't try to reinstall kstars until this dependency issue is resolved, as on this machine, Siril is a must-have while KStars is a nice-to-have.
I removed libxisf from my PPA and I am now rebuilding INDI + KStars without it.
Installing kstars still disables siril. What are the exact steps? Seems like something isn't updated.
Yes, so this is not going to work. INDI required more recent libxisf which is not available in Ubuntu yet. You can install KStars Flatpak instead https://indilib.org/forum/ekos/15496-kstars-flatpak-testing.html
Yeah, that worked, thanks. KStars and Siril now coexist. And KStars can open more than one image at a time. One minor quibble, at least on my machine, it says Installation completed For running the Kstars, run: flatpak run org.kde.kstars This is unnecessary at least on Ubuntu 24.04. The process creates a desktop icon that can simply be clicked.