Deploy KStars Desktop Planetarium to Microsoft Intune
KDE e.V.Windowsversion 3.8.5, 3 October 2026
KStars Desktop Planetarium is in the PatchBee catalog as a Windows app from KDE e.V., synced from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). Pick it in the App Library and PatchBee writes the deployment plan below, builds the package, publishes it to your Intune tenant and assigns it to the Entra groups you choose. New versions then follow through your update rings.
The plan PatchBee writes
KStars Desktop Planetarium as an Intune app
The standard form for a NSIS (x64, per machine). The real plan is generated from the installer when you package, and shown in full before anything is published; every field can be changed.
- Intune app type
- Windows app (Win32), .intunewin
- Install
- "KStarsDesktopPlanetarium.exe" /AllUsers
- Uninstall
- "uninstall.exe" /S
- Detection
- Registry: the NSIS uninstall key. Uninstall key KStars Desktop Planetarium, DisplayVersion 3.8.5 or newer.
- Requirements
- x64 · per user or per machine
Installers in version 3.8.5
| Architecture | Type | Scope | Hash |
|---|---|---|---|
| x64 | NSIS | per user | SHA-256 published |
| x64 | NSIS | per machine | SHA-256 published |
PatchBee downloads the installer from the publisher's own URL and verifies its SHA-256 against the catalog before packaging. "None published" means the source carries no hash for this download, so that check has nothing to compare against; packaging still works.
Silent install switches
Recorded for KStars Desktop Planetarium in its winget manifest. PatchBee uses them as the installer's unattended switches, so the package installs without a click.
- Custom (always added)
- /CurrentUser
- Custom (always added)
- /AllUsers
About KStars Desktop Planetarium
KStars is freely licensed, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software by KDE.
It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites.
For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator to predict conjunctions, and many common astronomical calculations.
For the amateur astronomer, it provides an observation planner, a sky calendar tool, and an FOV editor to calculate field of view of equipment and display them. Find out interesting objects in the "What's up Tonight" tool, plot altitude vs. time graphs for any object, print high-quality sky charts, and gain access to lots of information and resources to help you explore the universe!
Included with KStars is Ekos astrophotography suite, a complete astrophotography solution that can control all INDI devices including numerous telescopes, CCDs, DSLRs, focusers, filters, and a lot more. Ekos supports highly accurate tracking using online and offline astrometry solver, autofocus and autoguiding capabilities, and capture of single or multiple images using the powerful built in sequence manager.
Astronomical Catalogs:
- Publisher
- KDE e.V.
- Homepage
- kstars.kde.org/
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Source
- winget · KDE.KStars
- Versions in catalog
- 11
How this becomes an app in your tenant
Sign in with your Microsoft work account and connect your Intune tenant once. Find KStars Desktop Planetarium in the App Library, open its plan (the commands, detection rule and requirements above, editable) and publish: PatchBee downloads and verifies the installer, builds the package, creates the Intune app and assigns your groups. When KDE e.V. ships a new version, PatchBee detects it and rolls it out through your rings, with supersedence and rollback.
Read the step-by-step guideMore Windows apps
Catalog data as of 11 October 2026, from the Windows Package Manager community repository (winget). The product re-reads the source every night and plans against the live catalog, so the version here may already be one behind. Nothing is published to a tenant without an administrator approving the plan.