Installing the DEV version

[Dentonknifeworks]

I downloaded the DEV version.
Uncompressed it to home/pi/allsky
Ran the ./install.sh
picked the HQ cam
get

Compile failed:

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make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/allsky/src'
2022-10-31 16:48:56 Building capture_ZWO.o ...
2022-10-31 16:49:04 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:11 Building capture_ZWO program...
2022-10-31 16:49:13 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:13 Building capture_RPi.o ...
2022-10-31 16:49:19 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:19 Building mode_mean.o ...
2022-10-31 16:49:23 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:23 Building capture_RPi program...
2022-10-31 16:49:24 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:24 Building startrails program...
2022-10-31 16:49:33 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:33 Building keogram program...
2022-10-31 16:49:43 Done.
2022-10-31 16:49:43 Initializing sunwait submodule...
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
make[1]: *** [Makefile:112: patchsunwait] Error 128
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/allsky/src'
make: *** [Makefile:24: all] Error 2

What am I doing wrong or missing?
Thanks
Brad

[Alex-developer]

I would not use the download option as it doesn't include all of the required files.

The best way to install the dev branch, bearing in mind that its not production code so may have issues, it to use git. Try the following commands. Before running this ensure that there is no allsky directory in the folder, if there is it will fail

git clone https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky.git
cd allsky
git checkout dev
./install.sh

[Dentonknifeworks]

Thanks yes this is just testing wanted to see what you guys have been up to Thanks for the help did not know the Git Checkout dev command.

[EricClaeys]

@Alex-developer,
The current instructions say to run:

cd
git clone --recursive https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky.git
cd allsky
./install.sh

so I was going to have testers run:

git clone --recursive --branch dev https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky.git

(I believe the "--recursive" is needed for sunwait since our GitHub doesn't actually have the sunwait source, and may have been the reason for the error).
Is there an advantage of your method over the above?
I was also going to have users get the test website via website/install.sh --branch dev (I just renamed it from home-page-customizations).

@Dentonknifeworks If you want to upgrade to the DEV version, rename the old ~/allsky to ~/allsky-OLD and the installation will recognize it and move your images, darks (if you have them) to the new release. If you want to go back to the old release you can simply move those directories back.

[Alex-developer]

That will produce the same result. Downloading the zip file will not work as it doesnt include the .git directory so none of the git command will work.