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
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?