SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install KStars on Windows 11 2. Try to start KStars OBSERVED RESULT KStars fails to start and shows a dialog claiming it cannot find TZrules.dat in a given list of folders. After downloading from Git and placing the file in one the the listed paths, it now displays the same dialog but now complaining about missing citydb.sqlite. EXPECTED RESULT KStars starts SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION After playing with KStars I notices many info about sky objects were missing, like it could not suggest visible planets to see tonight. After looking into it, the installer did install the data files into "C:\Program Files\KStars Desktop Planetarium\share\kstars" However this folder was not listed in the folders KStars is looking into. After moving the content of "C:\Program Files\KStars Desktop Planetarium\share\kstars" into "C:\Program Files\KStars Desktop Planetarium\bin\data\kstars", KStars could find which planets are visible tonight.
Seeing the same behavior on MacOS 15.6.1. KStars fails to start and shows a dialog claiming it cannot find TZrules.dat in a given list of folders. Download from GitHub and put in the right place, then complains about missing citydb.sqlite. Do the same download dance from GitHub with citydb, and Kstars finally starts.
TZRules is installed where on your system? I tried deleting all the files then installing KStars, and I couldn't get that message about missing files.
The error dialog lists three locations where it looks for the file on MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/kstars /Library/Application Support/kstars /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/Resources (less sure I'm remembering that one correctly) I placed TZRules.dat in ~/Library/Application Support/kstars Put citydb.sqlite file in the same directory when it complained about not finding that. This is an install after I had deleted all the kstars files in the above directories (plus ~/Library/Preferences) and re-downloaded the .dmg file for 3.7.8
This should be fixed now for Windows. Please try to download again and test. MacOS is pending.
Bob Hendrich, We fixed this on MacOS, the DMG should be updated now.
Thanks! Works for me now on MacOS 15.6.1. Much appreciated!