BSD Ports

astro/kstars 3.8.5v0 OpenBSD

planetarium simulator for KDE

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]>
Last update
Commit
a77f31d465
Categories
astro, education

Description

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 3.8.5, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDastro/kstars3.8.5v0 newestno data-Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]>2026-10-14
FreeBSDastro/kstars3.8.5,1 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-11
NetBSDmisc/kstars by name3.8.2nb9 behind since 2026-08-08none known--2026-09-29
HardenedBSDastro/kstars3.8.4.1_2,1 behind since 2026-10-11no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDastro/kstars3.8.4.1_1,1 behind since 2026-10-11no data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Version history 2

  1. 3.8.5 a77f31d465
  2. 3.8.4.1 5392aac579

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add kstars

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/astro/kstars && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 10
Run dependencies 43

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 3

DateCommitCreditsLog message
a77f31d465 rsadowski Update kstars to 3.8.5
5392aac579 rsadowski Update kstars to 3.8.4.1
076f969b80 tb garbage collect USE_NOBTCFI-aarch64 = Yes# fortran
as suggested by sthen, instead of bumps, I'll crank _SYSTEM_VERSION-aarch64