Hi Baza, > anyone managed to get kstars working in hoary? Yep. I just used Synaptic or `apt-get install kstars', can't remember which, to install it and it appeared in the Applications -> Edutainment menu. $ apt-show-versions -p kstars kstars/unknown uptodate 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu1 Give us more detail on what happened your end. Cheers, Ralph.