INSTALL

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# KStars 3.3.7
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1. Dependencies

KStars can be built on any C++11 compliant modern Linux/BSD/Mac system. Dependencies fall under
required and optional.

1.1 Required
    + CMake
    + Qt (> 5.6)
    + KF5 (> 5.50)
    + KF5
    + ZLib
    + Eigen3

1.2 Optional
    + INDI
    + CFitsio
    + libnova
    + libraw
    + libgsl
    + wcslib

2. Installing Dependecies

2.1 Ubuntu

KStars requires 16.04+. Install the prerequisites:

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential cmake git pkg-config libeigen3-dev libcfitsio-dev zlib1g-dev libindi-dev extra-cmake-modules libkf5plotting-dev libqt5svg5-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev kio-dev kinit-dev libkf5newstuff-dev kdoctools-dev libkf5notifications-dev qtdeclarative5-dev libkf5crash-dev gettext libnova-dev libgsl-dev libraw-dev libkf5notifyconfig-dev wcslib-dev libqt5websockets5-dev xplanet xplanet-images qt5keychain-dev libsecret-1-dev breeze-icon-theme

2.2 Other Systems

Please refer to your system for how to install required packages.

3. Building KStars

$ mkdir ~/Projects/build/kstars
$ cd ~/Projects
$ git clone --depth 1 git://anongit.kde.org/kstars.git
$ cd build/kstars
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ~/Projects/kstars
$ make
$ sudo make install

This would override any KStars installation in your system path.