Astroberry Server - advanced install - not working yet?

[CaptainRon47]

12/5/2020 Trying to update to the latest Astroberry Server with Kstars 3.5.0 on an Rpi4 with 4 Gb ram. I first tried loading Ubuntu/mate using the 'advanced' procedure (loading the OS first and upgrading). But that failed (same as below). Then I went back to Raspbian Buster OS and followed the same procedure and that failed as listed below:

entering: wget -O - www.astroberry.io/repo/key | sudo apt-key add - sudo su -c "echo 'deb www.astroberry.io/repo/ buster main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/astroberry.list" sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

Then I typed : sudo apt install astroberry-server-full and it comes back and says there are unmet dependencies: $ sudo apt install astroberry-server-full Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree 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: astroberry-server-full : Depends: astroberry-server-wui but it is not going to be installed Depends: indi-full but it is not installable Depends: kstars-bleeding but it is not installable Depends: gsc but it is not installable Depends: phd2 but it is not installable Depends: phdlogview but it is not installable Depends: oacapture but it is not installable Depends: indi-astroberry-amh but it is not installable Depends: indi-astroberry-diy but it is not installable Depends: indi-astroberry-piface but it is not installable Depends: indiwebmanagerapp but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So this procedure does not seem to be working for getting to Astroberry/Kstars 3.5.0

I was able to install Kstars 3.5.0, but not the Astorberry server using this method. I will try burning the latest astroberry image next.

Ron

[rkaczorek]

The issue here is: astroberry-server-full : Depends: astroberry-server-wui but it is not going to be installed This is very strange as astroberry repo provides astroberry-server-wui package. Try installing astroberry-server-wui first and then astroberry-server-full

[CaptainRon47]

I believe I tried that and it would not load the missing packages independently. I first loaded: Ubuntu-mate-20.04.1-desktop-arm64+rasp.img Note: that it is using arm64, I am wondering if this is the issue. When I then switched to a new install of the latest Raspbian it also listed using arm64 and Astroberry would not install on their either of those systems. On the Ubuntu/Mate OS I was able to use the ppa to install Kstars-bleeding, which is Kstars 3.5.0, but not on the Raspbian with the arm64 (it did not find the ppa, as I was told that would not work). There is some work around, but I did not want to mess with that.

The other SD cards that I do have Astroberry Server running on are using armv71 OS. I am not well enough versed in the nuances of the interaction of the OS and programs to know if this is the real issue, but it is suggestive that it is to me. If this related to my problem, then perhaps it would be good to somehow qualify what OS version the Astroberry/Kstars suite can be installed on. When I went back to an arm71 OS on the Rpi 4, I was able to load this version of the Astroberry Server, however Kstars was still 3.4.3. So that was not what I wanted anyway, so I may just wait until Kstars 3.5.0 is released for the Rpi. I am told I can build it from the source, however I cannot get this page to load. httpss://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/KStars/Building_KStars_KF5

My purpose of doing this was to get Kstars 3.5.0 (with the Stella Solver) running on the Rpi 4. I have it running on a Win 10 x64 laptop and that works fine. As I mentioned on the Indi Forum, it is not clear that I need the Astroberry server as I run a wired connection to the Rpi at the scope from a laptop in the house. I can just run the Indi device manager from the command line and then connect and run Kstars over VNC. Of course, VNC is problematic on the Ubuntu/Mate OS, so at this point I may just continue using Kstars 3.5.0 on the laptop until there is a 'stable' release of 3.5.0.

thanks, Ron

[rkaczorek]

Astroberry packages are for 32bit rasbian only. Ubuntu is not supported, the same for arm64.

[CaptainRon47]

thanks, That is pretty much what I have concluded. The last question is can I load Kstars 3.5.0 (Bleeding) on a Raspbian 64 bit system on the Rpi? I think eventually that is were I am headed, as I don't care for Ubuntu.

[CaptainRon47]

I guess one more question, If I have Astroberry 2.0.3 running on a 32 bit Rpi with Kstars 3.4.3, how can I get Kstars (only) 3.5.0 running? I tried update, upgrade approach but that still left me with 3.4.3 (stable). Can I use the approach here to update to 3.5.0? https://www.indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi.html And will this then work with the already installed Astroberry but overwriting the old Kstars? Again my purpose is just to get Kstars 3.5.0 running on the Rpi (probably don't care if it is 32 or 64 bit), but I am not ready to build from the source, but I can follow the instructions from the website above. thanks,

Ron thanks,

[rkaczorek]

You can get it now. Updates were released yesterday so run sudo apt update && sudo run upgrade