Issues regarding building kstars on Debian 11 (bullseye) and getting Data catalogs

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Hello Rani,

Thank you for your feedback, it's greatly appreciated.

1. We have no control over what is available in distributions, it's outside
our control and they decide what version to include.
2. The latest instructions on how to install KStars is maintained in the
GIT repository: https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars
3. Will correct the typos and update the links.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 10:33 AM Rani Ahmed <ranixlb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello. I just don't understand why kstars does not get directly updated on
> Debian stable with the latest version.. This app has no security impacts
> and it does not hurt the computer data. The current kstars version on
> Debian stable is 3.4.3 and the current stable Debian distribution is Debian
> 11 bullseye. The latest kstars version is 3.5.9 beta. I always have to
> build from source in order to get the latest kstars.
>
> Also, in the following page for Debian 11 stable
>
>
> https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/KStars/Building_KStars_KF5#Debian_.2F_Kubuntu
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>
> please change the line :
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> sudo apt-get -y install build-essential cmake git 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
>
> to
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> apt-fast -y install build-essential cmake git libeigen3-dev libcfitsio-dev zlib1g-dev libindi-dev extra-cmake-modules libkf5plotting-dev libqt5svg5-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev kio kinit-dev libkf5newstuff-dev kdoctools5 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
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> Also in the kstars add-ons installer, I downloaded the huge USNO NOMAD catalog and put it in ~/.local/share/kstars and it still shows that it's not installed.
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>
> Also the page : https://edu.kde.org/kstars/install.php has a simple typo to point at https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/KStars/Building_KStars_KF5#Debian_.2F_Kubuntu . The link is written with double s in *httpss* instead of
>
> *https. it must be with a single s.*
>
>
> *Thanks.*
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