Could be the repository version of stellarsolver is out of date. I see Rob made a lot of commits in the last 24h so that might be it. I ran into the same problem earlier in the week. It's easy enough to install it. Clone this:

github.com/rlancaste/stellarsolver

Then run linux-scripts/installStellarSolverLibrary.sh. Try building kstars again.

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