I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? Thank you.
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:22, H <agents at ...> wrote:> I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. > > What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? > > Thank you.First you find out from wich package (rpm) your kate is. either you try to as yum: "yum search kate", or you do the full monty: locate the binary "type kate", usually /usr/bin/kate, then you ask rpm from which package this file comes: "rpm -qf /usr/bin/kate" take the main package name (the part before the version numbers) and feed it to yum: yum update [kate-package-name] YMMV, depening on what repos you have enabled or not. You can search most of what is available via pkgs.org, for kate, for example http://pkgs.org/search/kate then select "Centos 6" (maybe you have to scroll down for that) The EPEL repo seems to have version 0.3.8 of libkate at least. Have a nice week. - Yamaban
On 02/01/16 14:20, Yamaban wrote:> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:22, H <agents at ...> wrote: > >> I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a >> very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I >> can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. >> >> What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? >> >> Thank you. > > First you find out from wich package (rpm) your kate is. > > either you try to as yum: "yum search kate", > > or you do the full monty: > locate the binary "type kate", usually /usr/bin/kate, > then you ask rpm from which package this file comes: > "rpm -qf /usr/bin/kate" > take the main package name (the part before the version numbers) > and feed it to yum: > > yum update [kate-package-name] > > YMMV, depening on what repos you have enabled or not. > > You can search most of what is available via pkgs.org, > for kate, for example > > http://pkgs.org/search/kate > > then select "Centos 6" (maybe you have to scroll down for that) > > The EPEL repo seems to have version 0.3.8 of libkate at least. > > Have a nice week. > - Yamaban > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >yum install kdesdk-4.3.4-9.el6.x86_64 -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****
On 02/01/2016 08:20 PM, Yamaban wrote:> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:22, H <agents at ...> wrote: > >> I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a >> very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I >> can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. >> >> What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? >> >> Thank you. > > First you find out from wich package (rpm) your kate is. > > either you try to as yum: "yum search kate", > > or you do the full monty: > locate the binary "type kate", usually /usr/bin/kate, > then you ask rpm from which package this file comes: > "rpm -qf /usr/bin/kate" > take the main package name (the part before the version numbers) > and feed it to yum: > > yum update [kate-package-name] > > YMMV, depening on what repos you have enabled or not. > > You can search most of what is available via pkgs.org, > for kate, for example > > http://pkgs.org/search/kate > > then select "Centos 6" (maybe you have to scroll down for that) > > The EPEL repo seems to have version 0.3.8 of libkate at least. > > Have a nice week. > - Yamaban > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosI do have an old version installed and only very old versions seem to be available for CentOS, the current version of kate seems to be 15.12.1.
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:22:44PM -0500, H wrote:> I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a > very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I > can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. > > What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6?If you're fully up to date with 'yum', then that's the most recent version of 'kate' you are going to get from CentOS. CentOS is not a bleeding-edge distribution that constantly keeps packages up to date with the upstream projects. If you want that, try another distribution like Fedora. The version of KDE in CentOS6 (which kate appears to be a part of) is unlikely to get upgraded to the version in CentOS7. There is a 3rd-party repository that might have an upgraded KDE: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php (I found this on the list of 3rd party repos here: https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On 02/02/2016 09:28 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:> CentOS is not a bleeding-edge distribution that constantly keeps > packages up to date with the upstream projects. If you want that, try > another distribution like Fedora.<rant> GNOME can get a rebase to a newer version, but KDE can't..... this from a former KDE user who would love to go back to KDE but refuses to deal with the issues older versions have. This is, of course, an upstream issue and not a CentOS one, and I know that.... so I now use GNOME, even though it would be nice to see parity in the allowing of a rebase of KDE like the one for GNOME. </rant>> There is a 3rd-party repository that might have an upgraded KDE: > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php >Trinity Desktop (TDE), is a fork of KDE 3.x, and not updated from that. So in ways it is older, yet newer.
On 02/02/2016 03:50 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:> On 02/02/2016 09:28 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> CentOS is not a bleeding-edge distribution that constantly keeps >> packages up to date with the upstream projects. If you want that, try >> another distribution like Fedora. > <rant> > GNOME can get a rebase to a newer version, but KDE can't..... this > from a former KDE user who would love to go back to KDE but refuses to > deal with the issues older versions have. > > This is, of course, an upstream issue and not a CentOS one, and I know > that.... so I now use GNOME, even though it would be nice to see > parity in the allowing of a rebase of KDE like the one for GNOME. > </rant> > > >> There is a 3rd-party repository that might have an upgraded KDE: >> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php >> > > Trinity Desktop (TDE), is a fork of KDE 3.x, and not updated from > that. So in ways it is older, yet newer. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosWhat do people use as a programming editor on CentOS 6? My first impression of kate was favorable, not only did it support the usual programming and scripting languages but also markdown which I have recently discovered...