I may have ha some success with this, a new insall of Ubuntu Mate and a new install of INDI. So far, things seem to behave properly, so fingers crossed for some clear skies and we'll see.
One problem I did have with RPi2 install was Kstars-bleeding. I added the repository and sudo apt-get update, but when I try to install Kstars-bleeding I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
kstars-bleeding : Depends: libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.98.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5configgui5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.98.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.100.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5iconthemes5 (>= 5.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5kiocore5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5kiofilewidgets5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5kiowidgets5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5newstuff5 (>= 4.95.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 4.98.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kded5 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kinit but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
So far, everything i've tried to resolve the dependencies fails
If possible, I'd prefer to get bleeding to get the latest updates, so any advice welcome.