Obtaining kst source

The current stable release of kst is 1.7.0. Kst is available for download from your local KDE mirror.

For bleeding edge development code, kst is part of the kdeextragear-graphics package. Anonymous subversion (svn) access is also available, as well as browsable websvn for the stable (1.7.x) branch (bugfixes only), the development (1.8.x) branch, and the (doesn't work yet) Qt4 (Kst 2.0) branch.

Compiling kst is as simple as ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && su -c "make install". You may need to change the prefix to point where your kde is installed. Kst currently requires KDE3.4 (or newer (not QT/KDE4)). gsl and gsl-devel are required for most of the included plugins, including real time fitting and filtering. cfitsio is required for reading fits files. For help with compiling, installing, or running any of the above, please see the help page.

Kst binaries

Most users will not want to compile and install kst (and various dependencies) by hand. Many distributions have made kst available so download and installation is easy. However, the version of kst available may not correspond to the latest and greatest.

Distributions known to have kst available (and one way to install):

• Debian - apt-get install kst
• Fedora - yum install kst
• Fink - sudo fink install kst
• FreeBSD - cd /usr/ports/science/kst && make && make install
• Gentoo - emerge kst
• Mandriva - urpmi kst
• OpenBSD - cd /usr/ports/math/kst && make && make install
• OpenSUSE - rpm -i kst-version.rpm
• Ubuntu - apt-get install kst

If you know of more distributions which package kst, or errors above, please let the webmaster know.

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