Hello, I am new to astrometry.
I tried many ways to install it on my Mac but it doesn't work. I first tried brew install astrometry-net, but it did't work properly and then I downloaded the latest tar file, ran the standard
"$ sudo make
$ sudo make py
$ sudo make extra
$ sudo make install"
under the unzipped /astrometry.net-0.89 folder, which worked fine after install some extra packages. I downloaded all the index-4203-YY.fits index files and put them all in the folder usr/local/astrometry/data/, and ran
"$ sudo make install-indexes"
under /astrometry.net-0.89 folder, which gave me "mkdir -p '/usr/local/astrometry/data'". Then I did "solve-field demo/sdss.png", it worked once, produced some files like sdss.axy, with some error
"Reading input file 1 of 1: "demo/sdss.jpg"...
jpegtopnm: WRITING PPM FILE
Read file stdin: 496 x 340 pixels x 1 color(s); maxval 255
Using 8-bit output
Extracting sources...
simplexy: found 801 sources.
Solving...
system: No such file or directory
engine.c:82:engine_autoindex_search_paths: Warning: failed to open index directory: "/usr/local/Cellar/astrometry-net/0.89_1/data"
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You must list at least one index in the config file (/usr/local/bin/../etc/astrometry.cfg)
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solve-field.c:519:run_engine engine failed. Command that failed was:
/usr/local/bin/astrometry-engine demo/sdss.axy
ioutils.c:568:run_command_get_outputs Command failed: return value 255"
I thought it is because the execution went to the previous directory created by home-brew, so I reinstalled the astrometry under the unzipped folder with
"$ sudo make install INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/astrometry" (which is the default setting) HOWEVER it then turned out to be failed with
"zch: command not found: solve-field".
I deleted this folder/usr/local/Cellar/astrometry-net/ and brew uninstall astrometry-net, and reinstalled it from the unzipped folder with exactly the same code as before, but it kept failing with the same problem
"zch: command not found: solve-field".
I reinstalled with former version 0.88, but it didn't work either.
Can anyone help me? Thank you very much!