Hi,

That's unexpected. On my UbuntuMate 20.0.4 machine, I didn't have to run the script as root and /usr/share/kstars/ contains TZrules.dat
The /usr/local folder on this machine is owned by root, so I suspect you might would have to execute the script with a sudo to be able create things in that folder. The default ~ install probably? avoids this.

If you didn't already have a stable install of KStars on your machine perhaps that's why TZrules.dat is missing?  I'm just guessing here.

Sorry for adding to the complexities of a simple install.

Cheers
 Jerry

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