Starlink Installation with Flatpak
Flatpak is a package manager for Linux which comes with many modern distributions. It runs applications in an isolated environment, separate from the rest of your system. Currently our flatpak repository has just a "dev" branch, containing the latest development version of Starlink (not a particular release).
Installation
You can install on Linux as follows (assuming you already have flatpak itself installed):
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo flatpak remote-add --user --no-gpg-verify starlink https://ftp.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink/flatpak/starlink.flatpakrepo flatpak install --user starlink edu.hawaii.eao.starlink.Starlink flatpak install --user starlink edu.hawaii.eao.starlink.Starlink.StarJava
Running
And then run with:
flatpak run edu.hawaii.eao.starlink.Starlink
or:
~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/edu.hawaii.eao.starlink.Starlink
or use the icon which should have been added to your menu.
This should open a shell inside the isolated environment, with Starlink installed at /app and already set up. (Note however that from this terminal your other system programs will not be available.)
Uninstallation
Starlink can be removed as follows:
flatpak uninstall edu.hawaii.eao.starlink.Starlink flatpak remote-delete starlink
And if the flathub remote is not being used for anything else, it can be removed:
flatpak remote-delete flathub