Under Software Location, the first field to the left of where it says “Must point to a valid StarNet executable” will not let me put anything in that field. It will not let me type anything in that field (replacing “None”) nor does clicking on the folder icon to the right of “None” do anything. So I cannot enter the location of the Starnet Executable and thus cannot do Star Removal, etc.
I ran sudo flatpak repair siril and now when I click the software location, it pops up the Gnome File Manager and lets me select the StarNet executable. I am not sure whether the siril installation I had was installed before or after the upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04, but running the repair command took care of it.
I’m not keeping a list, we had so many problem reports for siril that were only due to flatpak, I don’t understand why people use this at all, most related to I/O of course, finding things outside its shell
Here’s one:
On the announcements page for the new version, there is a download button. I download the file. Now what the h*ll do I do with it? There is a plethora of information about installing from a URL. So why did I download the file??
IMHO, Siril should do a better job documenting the different methods of installation. I am glad to learn there is a Ubuntu ppa method. Sounds much better and I will try it
scohen@aigas:~/Downloads$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lock042/siril
[sudo] password for scohen:
Repository: 'Types: deb
URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/lock042/siril/ubuntu/
Suites: noble
Components: main
'
Description:
These packages are snapshots of development branch. They should be stable enough but bugs can occur in these releases.
To add this PPA open a terminal and type
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lock042/siril
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
To revert to official repository, open a terminal and type
sudo ppa-purge ppa:lock042/siril
Before you install ppa-purge
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
More info: https://launchpad.net/~lock042/+archive/ubuntu/siril
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 13762 (packagekitd)
N: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system.
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
Yes, but the instructions that are available on that Siril page are actually wrong. You should not have to hunt for what do with a downloaded file on an app install page.
That didn’t work. After doing so I got version 1.2.1.Actually killing the processes, then adding the ppa on the command line and then installing it did, finally, bring me up to 1.4.0-beta.
