OK, I got kstars compiled using seanhoughton's method. I am now trying to work my way through getting KStars / Ekos / INDI up and running, and I'm getting a worrisome error in the logfile in the Terminal Window that kstars opens:

File opened: "/Users/jimbo/Library/Application Support/kstars/comets.dat"
klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
couldn't create slave: "Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files"
Loading Supernovae data

I have tried running

/usr/local/Cellar/kf5-kinit/5.16.0/bin/kdeinit5_wrapper klauncher

from the commandline (which seems to be how to start klauncher, please advise), btu that spits out this error:

kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/Users/jimbo/Library/Application Support/kdeinit5_NODISPLAY) failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can not run klauncher !

Which leads me to believe that it's having a problem with the " " in "Application Support". Is there a way to get kdeinit to escape the space character, or some other way to get klauncher launched?

Any advice at this point would be appreciated.

Clear skies,
Jimbo

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