Installation

How to obtain
is presently available as a source tarball, a Mandrake RPM, a Debian package, or as CVS source. If you'd like to contribute a binary package for your favorite distribution, please let us know!
The latest source code tarball can be obtained from http://prdownloads.sourceforge .net/kstars/. It is also posted at the homepage, at apps.kde.com, and at freshmeat.net.
is part of the project, so if you want the latest CVS development version, you can get instructions at the website

Requirements
In order to successfully run , you need >=2.1 and >=2.2.4. It may run on 2.0 (and a similarly deprecated ), but this has not been tested. If you try, please contact us with the results (success or failure)!
To compile , you will also have to have the following packages installed:
kdelibs-devel
libqt2-headers
zlib-devel
autoconf less than 2.5!!
Autoconf 2.5 is (apparently) incompatible with the files generated by KDevelop. (This incompatibility is expected to be resolved when 3.0 is released).
On my system, uses about 50 MB of system memory with the default settings. Most of this usage is due to the loaded object databases, especially the 40,000-member stars database. You can dramatically reduce the memory footprint by reducing the faint limit for stars in the Configuration Window. If is idling, it uses very little CPU; but it will use as much as you've got when panning or zooming.

Compilation and Installation
In order to compile and install on your system, type the following in the base directory of the unpacked distribution:

% ./configure --prefix=$KDEDIR
% make
% make install

Please don't forget the prefix argument to configure. If your KDEDIR variable isn't set, set prefix to whatever directory is installed in. It's usually either /usr, /opt/kde or /opt/kde2. Also, make sure you do the last step as root. uses autoconf and automake, so you should not have trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the mailing list kstars-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

Configuration
At this point, there are no special configuration options or requirements. If complains that there are missing data files, become root and manually copy all files in kstars/data/ to $(KDEDIR)/apps/kstars/ (If you don't have root privileges, copy them to ~/.kde/share/apps/kstars/.)