James Thornton

Han - yes the root directory is overwritten. Hower the home directory is not. MW4 installs in the directory the installation file is in. So in my case it installs in home/mw4. I actually copied the Astap .zst file to my home/astap directory, but when it runs, it puts all the files in the root directory /opt/astap. SMPro or kstars can also use Astap instead of Stellarsolver. I think if its in the home directory i can point both SMPro in the root directory and MW4 in the home directory to Astap in...

Jasem had good question. Was wondering if it is ok to publish the link to your arch linux file direct on SMPro repisitory or better to the main page and reference the arch linux file.

this is what i received from Jasem/Pouya: Yes, thank you for it. Regarding the upgrade, your /home/stellarmate is persistent, but you will lose your changes on /opt/astap, so you will need to copy it to /home/ to make it persistent https://stellarmate.com/support/faq/stellarmate/how-to-install-mw4-on-sm-os-2-0.html https://stellarmate.com/support/faq/stellarmate/how-to-install-astap-on-sm-os-2-0.html i noted the errors on the copyright.txt file not copying over and that the .lck file needed to be...

There was some issue im trying to get clarification on from Jasem/Pouya. They told me to solve the update issue, everyting not "Stellarmate" needs to move out of the root directory into the home directory. i noticed the .zst files (app and data) loaded from a home folder location home/astap / directly to a root file (/opt/astap). i'm trying to get them to explain exactly what needs to be done with the .zst files as i may have missed something. When i tried to move the 1459 files from the root /opt/astap...

Michel (MW4) said: Hi Jim, great to hear an good compilation of what to do. Sidenote: with 4.0.0 of MW4 coming (actually first betas) step 8 will go away, because I moved from PyQt5 to PySide6, which brings aarch64 architecture with it and you don't need precompiled packages anymore. Michel

I think Jasem/Pouya are working to resolve the atomic update issues which will reportedly wipe MW4 and ASTAP changes with each update.

This is what I did to install MW4 and ASTAP on SMPro. This was communicated to Jasem/Pouya (SM), MW4 (Michel), ASTAP (Han) For mw4 there are installation instructions at https://mworion.github.io/MountWizzard4/install/index.html In summary 1) in stellarmate directory using terminal type curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh 2) close terminal and reopen terminal. Type uv —version 3) mkdir mw4 4) cd mw4 5) uv vent -p 3.10 6) Check to make sure you installed venv. Type ls -la 7) uv pip install...

Jasem responded: Yes GTK is out. Maybe Han should switch to Qt? Not easy but it's much better than GTK