Thanks! This is one of the things in the script I didn't understand (I've never tried building anything from source). As it turns out, increasing the swap file size got me past the problem command and my abbreviated script worked as it should and I now have a working copy of the current Kstars. So far I'm impressed - I had tried a version that was in the repository and the current version is much improved. Hopefully I will have a chance to try hooking some of my equipment to it later today.

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