My apologies, I meant no offense.

Oh, no, no offense at all. Sorry, I was trying to explain that is not an easy task for a completely noob Linux user. If you are trying to compile a program on this systems you need to feel reasonable comfortable with some basic tools: shell command line interface, apt package distribution subsystem, git for source code management. Without a basic understanding on all those tools it will be a very frustrating experience.

For example, for KStars, if you follow the steps defined on the GitHub repository one by one, almost sure it will compile and install. But this is not usually the case and then you need to know something more about how the OS is structure, which tools do you can use and all this stuff.

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