I would like to install a light weight text editor and came across Kwrite. I downloaded the install and found that like so many Linux applications, it’s included in a much bigger package. In this case it’s bundled with the KDE Base download. I don’t want to install anything else, just Kwrite. Is there a way around this?

hi

need to recompile

info link
http://kate-editor.org/get-it/

source link
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/k ... repository

I'm trying to follow your suggetsions, but I'm really struggling to get the required packages installed. I'm trying to install the kdelibs development package and I'm getting the errors listed below. Isn't there a way to install the kdelibs and have it resolve dependancies issues it is complaining about automatically? I'm also not sure I have the right kdelib package as there are many floating around out there.

Can you help me out?

rpm -i kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm
warning: kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
error: Failed dependencies:
arts-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
bzip2-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
kdelibs = 6:3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1 is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libacl-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libart_lgpl-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libidn-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libjpeg-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libkdnssd-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libtiff-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libutempter-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
libxslt-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
openssl-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
pcre-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
qt-devel >= 1:3.3.6 is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386
zlib-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-26.el5.centos.1.i386

It is not necessary to "download kwrite" - you should be installing it through your package manager.
If you are using KDE on your computer however, KWrite should be installed already.

Which distribution are you using? If you are on Fedora / Redhat Enterprise - then "yum" is your package manager there if I recall.