Cannot install INDI eqmod driver on a Raspberry Pi.

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I have installed the minimal version of the Pi OS on my Raspberry Pi 4, with 8GB RAM. I have run the following post-install in order to update the OS:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Since INDI is not available from the standard Raspberry repository, I then followed the instructions on the INDI website and ran to add the required repository:

curl -fsSL https://astroberry.io/debian/astroberry.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/astroberry.gpg
curl -fsSL https://astroberry.io/debian/astroberry.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/astroberry.sources
sudo apt update

I then tried to install indi-bin and indi-eqmod. The packages seem mutually exclusive and one removes the other, which didn't happen on my Linux machine. The problem is that 'indi-bin' does not include the 'indi_eqmod_telescope' driver, but indi-eqmod does not appear to include binaries. When installing indi-eqmod, this removes 'indi-bin' and with it 'indiserver'.

I tried installing 'indi-eqmod' and then copying the 'indi_eqmod_telescope' drive to my home directory and then copying it back into '/usr/bin/indi_eqmod_driver', but got this when I tried to run 'indiserver' with that driver:

2026-07-13T13:33:44: startup: indiserver -v indi_eqmod_telescope
2026-07-13T13:33:44: Driver indi_eqmod_telescope: pid=2707 rfd=6 wfd=6 efd=7
2026-07-13T13:33:44: listening to port 7624 on fd 5
2026-07-13T13:33:44: Local server: listening on local domain at: @/tmp/indiserver
2026-07-13T13:33:44: Driver indi_eqmod_telescope: indi_eqmod_telescope: error while loading shared libraries: libindidriver.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it seems the indi_eqmod_teleescope driver is built differently or some dependency is still missing. I believe that both packages need to be installed together as they have been on my Linux machine which works fine.

To Reproduce

Simply install 'indi-bin', then install 'indi-eqmod'. One package will remove the other. The same happens if you install them in reverse.

Expected behavior

Both packages should install and complement each other. The 'indi_eqmod_telescope' driver is not supplied with 'indi-bin', but on my Linux PC it could be added with 'sudo apt install indi-eqmod'.

OS: Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit, 2026-06-08

Accessed headless via SSH.

Log Files

When installing 'indi-eqmod' after installing 'indi-bin':

$ sudo apt install indi-eqmod
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libev4t64  librtlsdr0  libxisf0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

Installing:
  indi-eqmod

Installing dependencies:
  libindi-plugins  libindialignmentdriver1  libindidriver1

**REMOVING:**
  indi-bin  libindi1

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 4, Removing: 2, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 861 kB
  Freed space: 29.0 MB

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When re-installing 'indi-bin' after installing 'indi-eqmod':

$ sudo apt install indi-bin
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libahp-gt1  libindiclient1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

Installing:
  indi-bin

Installing dependencies:
  libindi1

**REMOVING:**
  indi-eqmod  libindi-plugins  libindialignmentdriver1  libindidriver1

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 2, Removing: 4, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 4,218 kB
  Space needed: 29.0 MB / 116 GB available

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Something similar seems to happen when I attempt to install the driver for the ASI camera:

$ sudo apt install indi-asi
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libahp-gt1  libev4t64  libgsl28  libgslcblas0  libindiclient1  librtlsdr0  libxisf0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

Installing:
  indi-asi

Installing dependencies:
  libasi  libindidriver1

**REMOVING:**
  indi-bin  libindi1

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 3, Removing: 2, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 1,011 kB
  Freed space: 28.3 MB

Continue? [Y/n] 

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It turns out that one has to install the all-3rd-party drivers package in addition to indi-bin and then it works. Seems a bit odd to have to install 335 drivers instead of just the two or three required?

I also noticed that many of the driver files have a zero byte-length. Is this an omission or repository corruption, or are they just placeholders? Seems a bit odd?