Howto install Pyindi-client on Ubuntu

[f6bvp]

Freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a Raspberry Pi4b is working fine.
pyindi-client install needs pre requisit :
sudo apt install python3-setuptools
sudo apt install python-dev-is-python3 libindi-dev swig
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo apt-get install libcfitsio-dev
sudo apt-get install libnova-dev
sudo pip install pyindi-client
Succes !

All this sequence is not clearly given on different sites.
For example on :
https://pypi.org/project/pyindi-client/
https://github.com/indilib/pyindi-client

Bernard
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[f6bvp]

This page should be updated for Ubuntu 22.04
https://indilib.org/support/tutorials/166-installing-and-using-the-python-pyndi-client-on-raspberry-pi.html

[knro]

Yes. I asked for volunteers to maintain the pyindi-client documentation on INDI website and elsewhere. If you're up for it, please let me know!

[Italianmoose]

Confirmed this worked on an RPi4 (using the Astroberry image), I couldn't get it to work on a Windows Subsystem for Linux using Ubuntu. Although it installed the python 2 version, so for an Astroberry install the steps would be:

sudo apt install python3-setuptools python-dev libindi-dev swig python3-pip libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev
pip3 install pyindi-client

[f6bvp]

For Ubuntu 23.04 the solution I found in order to install PyIndi-client was to download sources from

https://github.com/indilib/pyindi-client.git

Enter a Linux console and run command :
git clone https://github.com/indilib/pyindi-client.git
Then cd pyindi-client

Make compilation according to README executing command :

python setup.py install
did not find python !
I had to create a symbolic link :
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python

Despite a lot of warnings pyindi-client PyIndi is now available in Python applications by
import pyindi

I hope this help.