Instalación

Como obter o
O distribúese co como parte do módulo "Edutainment" do kdeedu.
We also occasionally make an independent release. These independent releases will be available as a gzipped tar archive from the following website: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kstars/.
Independent releases are announced through the kstars-announce@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list. Releases are also posted to the home page, kde-apps.org, and freshmeat.net.
is been packaged by many Linux/BSD distributions, including Redhat, Suse, and Mandrake. Some distributions package as a separate application, some just provide a kdeedu package, which includes .
If you would like the latest SVN development version of , please follow these instructions.

Requisitos
Para executar con éxito o precísase >=4.0 e >=4.3.
Para compilar o tamén hai que ter instalados os paquetes seguintes:
kdelibs-devel
qt-devel
zlib-devel
fam-devel
png-devel
jpeg-devel
cmake
No meu sistema, o utiliza uns 60 MB de memoria do sistema coa configuración por omisión. A maior parte deste uso débese ás bases de datos de obxectos cargadas. Pódese reducir enormemente a ocupación da memoria reducindo o límite de visibilidade das estrelas na xanela de configuración ou eliminando catálogos de obxectos (NGC, IC, cometas, asteroides, ). Se o non está a facer nada emprega moi pouca CPU, mais utiliza toda a disponíbel cando se despraza ou amplía a visualización.

Compilación e instalación
In order to compile and install on your system, type the following in the base folder of the unpacked distribution:

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

Please do not forget the prefix argument to configure. If your KDEDIR variable is not set, set prefix to whatever folder is installed in: this is usually either /usr, /opt/kde, or /opt/kde3. 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@kde.org.

Configuración
Nesta altura non hai opcións ou requisitos de configuración especiais. Se o se queixa de que lle faltan ficheiros de datos, entra como root e copia manualmente todos os ficheiros que haxa en kstars/data para $(KDEDIR)/apps/kstars (se non tes privilexios de root cópiaos para ~/.kde/share/apps/kstars/.)