Requirements

In order to successfully run KStars, you need KDE >=3.0 and Qt™>=3.0. As of version 1.0, we no longer support KDE 2.x.

To compile KStars, you will also have to have the following packages installed:

On my system, KStars uses about 60 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. Of course, if you have memory to spare, you can increase the faint limit to display up to 126,000 stars. If KStars is idling, it uses very little CPU; but it will use as much as you've got when panning or zooming.