Sorry, just couldn't resist the pun.
Here's a short write up of how I installed indi and the web manager on the Rock64 (2GB) from pine64.org
Rock64 ubuntu installation
download of a Linux image to my windows machine:
download xenial-mate-rock64-0.5.10-118-arm64 from github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases
This is a the latest stable community release. The latest pre-release is 0.5.15 at the time of writing.
extracted using 7z
written to a 32 GB micro sd-card using win32diskimager
connected to hdmi, tplink usb device connects to wifi, cordless keyboard and mouse (logitech with usb dongle)
Booted the Rock64:
this starts the mate desktop (default login is Rock64/Rock64, you might want to change that for security reasons)
in the network manager for your network (that's where you've set the SSID, passkey), allow the network (wifi) connection for all users
From here on I used Putty to SSH into the Rock64. No more need for the desktop (but I keep it for future use with Teamviewer). So I removed the logitech usb device.
installed indilib full and kstars bleeding, see the ubuntu instructions on the indilib website.
Installed pip:
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
This installed an older version. However, upgrading did install the newest.
Tried installing indi web manager, but got a compilation error:
Python.h - no such file or directory.
Solution: install Python-dev (use this for Python 2.7)
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
(for Python 3.x use:)
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev
Install indi-web:
$ sudo pip install indiweb
That's it!
(If it doesn't work, ask around. I'm no good at Linux, I just follow the various write ups and tutorials.)
Btw, I use a wifi usb dongle because I want to use the board outside with my mount. This takes one of the 2 usb ports. Eventually I will use the wired Ethernet port to connect to a local network, just for my astro gear. It's just that I haven't set this up yet.
Hope this can be of use to someone.
Here's a short write up of how I installed indi and the web manager on the Rock64 (2GB) from pine64.org
Rock64 ubuntu installation
download of a Linux image to my windows machine:
download xenial-mate-rock64-0.5.10-118-arm64 from github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases
This is a the latest stable community release. The latest pre-release is 0.5.15 at the time of writing.
extracted using 7z
written to a 32 GB micro sd-card using win32diskimager
connected to hdmi, tplink usb device connects to wifi, cordless keyboard and mouse (logitech with usb dongle)
Booted the Rock64:
this starts the mate desktop (default login is Rock64/Rock64, you might want to change that for security reasons)
in the network manager for your network (that's where you've set the SSID, passkey), allow the network (wifi) connection for all users
From here on I used Putty to SSH into the Rock64. No more need for the desktop (but I keep it for future use with Teamviewer). So I removed the logitech usb device.
installed indilib full and kstars bleeding, see the ubuntu instructions on the indilib website.
Installed pip:
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
This installed an older version. However, upgrading did install the newest.
Tried installing indi web manager, but got a compilation error:
Python.h - no such file or directory.
Solution: install Python-dev (use this for Python 2.7)
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
(for Python 3.x use:)
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev
Install indi-web:
$ sudo pip install indiweb
That's it!
(If it doesn't work, ask around. I'm no good at Linux, I just follow the various write ups and tutorials.)
Btw, I use a wifi usb dongle because I want to use the board outside with my mount. This takes one of the 2 usb ports. Eventually I will use the wired Ethernet port to connect to a local network, just for my astro gear. It's just that I haven't set this up yet.
Hope this can be of use to someone.
