Description of problem: When starting kstars on a Fedora 20 system, the menu item Device is missing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kstars 2.2.0 running on KDE 4.14.3 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start kstars 2. Check for menu item Device 3. Actual results: Not found Expected results: Should be there. Can't communicate with telescope without it. Additional info: A similar problem occurred in Fedora 13. See bugzilla bug 640522
KStars now wants libindi 0.9.8, we only have 0.9.6 in F20. We're also missing a BuildRequires: pykde4, and astrometry.net which is probably not packaged yet.
(Actually, for pykde4, there's already a runtime Requires, which is probably sufficient, it's the usual "runtime requirements checked at build time" nonsense.) I filed bug #1169089 against libindi requesting a libindi upgrade on Fedora 20. I hope we can get that, or I'll have to figure out how to make this work with the old version.
astrometry.net is not yet packaged. It is useful for an alignment of the telescope. KStars provides online and offline plate solving, for the offline solving you need astrometry.net with a huge set of catalog data (>20GB for a common Celestron C8 telescope) to get it working well. For the online solving you just need some kind of internet connection.
Looks like Rex Dieter's simple CMakeLists.txt hack to build against 0.9.6 would have worked, but we're now preparing a grouped update with libindi 0.9.9 and rebuilt indi-apogee and kstars. The kstars build is here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=8267033
kstars-4.14.3-1.fc20.2,indi-apogee-1.0-14.fc20.1,libindi-0.9.9-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kstars-4.14.3-1.fc20.2,indi-apogee-1.0-14.fc20.1,libindi-0.9.9-1.fc20
Package kstars-4.14.3-1.fc20.2, indi-apogee-1.0-14.fc20.1, libindi-0.9.9-1.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kstars-4.14.3-1.fc20.2 indi-apogee-1.0-14.fc20.1 libindi-0.9.9-1.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-16108/kstars-4.14.3-1.fc20.2,indi-apogee-1.0-14.fc20.1,libindi-0.9.9-1.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Menu items are now back and seems to work,
Please do not close the bug before the update actually hits the stable updates repository. The Fedora update system (Bodhi) will close it automatically.
kstars-4.14.3-1.fc20.2, indi-apogee-1.0-14.fc20.1, libindi-0.9.9-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.