This is weird. I compiled the last version of kstars from git. Ekos and indi are "gone": there are no icons for them. I thought something funny was going on with the toolbar, but if I edit it, there are no actions available (for ekos or indi). Also, in the menus, I can't find any entry for them.
Otherwise kstars runs fine.
Previously, I had already compiled the last version of libindi from git.
Obviously I must be doing something wrong because I seem to be the only one who has this bug. I can't find any other reference.
When you compiled KStars, it didn't detect INDI and therefore no Ekos. Make sure your INDI is correctly installed (cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr) and make sure there is no INDI /usr/local
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I am not following up with Raspbian, I just have one that is building the package and it's Jessie. If I upgrade that to Stretch then Jessie packages stopped. Is it safe to assume most users on Stretch now?
Nevermind, it resolved itself when I started from scratch, completely removing the build directories for indi and kstars and starting again with cmake, make, make install. Whatever the problem was, it went away with the old builds.
Now I have a second system with exactly the same problem and I hope to apply the same "solution".