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.