Requirements

Requirements

In order to successfully run KStars, you need KDE >=2.1 and Qt™>=2.2.4. It has been reported not to run under KDE 2.0.

Note that, beginning with version 0.9, there are separate tarballs for each release, depending on whether you use KDE 2.x or KDE 3.x. The code is identical in each version (we were careful to maintain backward compatibility); the only difference is in the configure/make scripts.

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

On my system, KStars 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 KStars is idling, it uses very little CPU; but it will use as much as you've got when panning or zooming.

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