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== Introduction ==
See [[../Building KStars KF5|Building KStars From Sources]].
This page is a community effort to document the procedure to build various versions of KStars on various platforms and environments.
 
== Why build from source? ==
Typically, you would want to build KStars from source if you plan to develop KStars, or stay on the bleeding edge and contribute valuable feedback.
 
== Prerequisite Packages ==
To build and develop KStars, several packages may be required from your distribution. Here's a list.
=== Required dependencies ===
* GNU Make, GCC -- Essential tools for building
* kdelibs -- KDE libraries
* cmake -- buildsystem used by KDE
* eigen -- linear algebra library
=== Optional dependencies ===
* libcfitsio -- FITS library
* libindi -- Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface, for controlling equipment.
 
=== Installing these packages ===
To install all of these, use the following commands:
==== Debian / Kubuntu ====
 
  sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake kdelibs5-dev libeigen2-dev libcfitsio3-dev
 
Please note that INDI is unavailable in Debian testing as of this writing.
 
== Documentation on building various versions ==
=== Git ===
KStars development happens on KDE's git repository. ([http://git-scm.com Git] is an open-source version control software.). The code on git is the bleeding-edge developers' version of KStars. It does break occasionally.
 
To fetch the KStars source code:
 
  git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kstars
 
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