Hi all,

Recently I installed CentOS 6 in my PC.
I have another PC with CentOS x86_64 where I installed kdebase in order to use Kate long ago. So i wanted to install Kate in this other PC as well.

After installing kdebase (making use of YUM) I have all the usual applications (including Kwrite) but kate is missing
I have already looked in /usr/bin / for the kate folder, but it is not there
I have also tried [sudo yum install kate] but the answer is
$sudo yum install kate
* base: www.ftp.ne.jp
* elrepo: ftp.osuosl.org
* epel: ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp
* extras: www.ftp.ne.jp
* kde: apt.kde-redhat.org
* updates: www.ftp.ne.jp
No package kate available.
Error: Nothing to do

Frankly I do not remember how i managed to install kate in my former computer, but I have tried for 2 days without success to have Kate in my new PC.

I really need it, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

My PC arch is i686
My CentOS version is 6.2
My KDE installation is 4.3.4 (I have the same one in the old PC, same CentOS as well)

Thank you very much in advance

I will answer myself since I already solved it

sudo yum install kdesdk

And thats it
I found illumination here:
http://userbase.kde.org/Kate

The problem is that in the home page, they only point that
"As Kate and KWrite are part of the KDE project, you can get them simply by installing the KDE packages from your Linux distribution. To get Kate for Mac OS X, please visit KDE’s Mac pages. Windows packages are available through the KDE on Windows project."

But they are too abstract for people that its not very familiar wioth the KDE stuff.

Anyway, for those out there looking to use Kate, i hope this saves you the terrible hours i spent looking for it.

PS: I wrote a OpenCL highlighting file for kate, in case anyone want it, you can drop me a line
mchapam0300[at]gmail.com

You may wish to submit your OpenCL syntax file to the Kate developers. Their mailing list is kwrite-devel@kde.org.
If accepted, it will form part of the next KDE release.

hi,
thank you for the answer.
i have just used the command sudo yum install kdesdk
and i have installed the kate (or kdesdk ?) , but i am not able to find it anywhere, not i am able to run it from the command line: kate & kdesdk &
so how then i run the katE? where it is located? is that also possible to run it from terminal?

i thank you in advance for the anwer
best regards

mchapa wrote:I will answer myself since I already solved it

sudo yum install kdesdk


And thats it
I found illumination here:
http://userbase.kde.org/Kate

The problem is that in the home page, they only point that
"As Kate and KWrite are part of the KDE project, you can get them simply by installing the KDE packages from your Linux distribution. To get Kate for Mac OS X, please visit KDE’s Mac pages. Windows packages are available through the KDE on Windows project."

But they are too abstract for people that its not very familiar wioth the KDE stuff.

Anyway, for those out there looking to use Kate, i hope this saves you the terrible hours i spent looking for it.

PS: I wrote a OpenCL highlighting file for kate, in case anyone want it, you can drop me a line
mchapam0300[at]gmail.com

kdesdk itself is not a command - it is merely a module, or collection of applications and other related software, which KDE releases.
If you have installed all components of kdesdk, then running "kate" should suffice to start it.

If it does not, try checking to see if a separate Kate package exists.

[root@localhost bin]# sudo yum install kdesdk

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: ftp.up.pt
* extras: ftp.up.pt
* updates: ftp.up.pt
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kdesdk.i686 0:4.3.4-4.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: kdesdk-utils = 4.3.4-4.el6 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: kdesdk-libs = 4.3.4-4.el6 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::DOM) for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libsvn_subr-1.so.0 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libsvn_ra-1.so.0 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libsvn_fs-1.so.0 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libsvn_delta-1.so.0 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libsvn_client-1.so.0 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libkstartperf.so.4 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libkompareinterface.so.4 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libkomparediff2.so.4 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libkomparedialogpages.so.4 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libkateinterfaces.so.4 for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: kross(python) for package: kdesdk-4.3.4-4.el6.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kdesdk-libs.i686 0:4.3.4-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package kdesdk-utils.i686 0:4.3.4-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package kross-python.i686 0:4.3.4-5.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-DOM.noarch 0:1.44-7.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::RegExp) for package: perl-XML-DOM-1.44-7.el6.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::Parser) for package: perl-XML-DOM-1.44-7.el6.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(LWP::UserAgent) for package: perl-XML-DOM-1.44-7.el6.noarch
---> Package subversion.i686 0:1.6.11-10.el6_5 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 for package: subversion-1.6.11-10.el6_5.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-URI.noarch 0:1.40-2.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-Parser.i686 0:2.36-7.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-RegExp.noarch 0:0.03-7.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-libwww-perl.noarch 0:5.833-2.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl-HTML-Parser >= 3.33 for package: perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTML::Entities) for package: perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Zlib) for package: perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-Compress-Zlib.i686 0:2.021-136.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Uncompress::Gunzip) >= 2.021 for package: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.021-136.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Compress::Gzip::Constants) >= 2.021 for package: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.021-136.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Compress::Gzip) >= 2.021 for package: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.021-136.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Compress::Base::Common) >= 2.021 for package: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.021-136.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.021 for package: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.021-136.el6.i686
---> Package perl-HTML-Parser.i686 0:3.64-2.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTML::Tagset) >= 3.03 for package: perl-HTML-Parser-3.64-2.el6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTML::Tagset) for package: perl-HTML-Parser-3.64-2.el6.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.i686 1:2.021-136.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch 0:3.20-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Base.i686 0:2.021-136.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.i686 0:2.021-136.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
kdesdk i686 4.3.4-4.el6 base 6.6 M
Installing for dependencies:
kdesdk-libs i686 4.3.4-4.el6 base 254 k
kdesdk-utils i686 4.3.4-4.el6 base 144 k
kross-python i686 4.3.4-5.el6 base 126 k
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib i686 1:2.021-136.el6 base 70 k
perl-Compress-Zlib i686 2.021-136.el6 base 45 k
perl-HTML-Parser i686 3.64-2.el6 base 109 k
perl-HTML-Tagset noarch 3.20-4.el6 base 17 k
perl-IO-Compress-Base i686 2.021-136.el6 base 69 k
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib i686 2.021-136.el6 base 135 k
perl-URI noarch 1.40-2.el6 base 117 k
perl-XML-DOM noarch 1.44-7.el6 base 136 k
perl-XML-Parser i686 2.36-7.el6 base 224 k
perl-XML-RegExp noarch 0.03-7.el6 base 9.8 k
perl-libwww-perl noarch 5.833-2.el6 base 387 k
subversion i686 1.6.11-10.el6_5 updates 2.2 M

Transaction Summary
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Install 16 Package(s)

Total download size: 11 M
Installed size: 35 M
Is this ok [y/N]: Exiting on user Command
[root@localhost bin]# kate
bash: kate: command not found


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so as u can see i have installed everything well, but there is no kate

Please check for a separate Kate package in that case. Note that the KDE Workspace, as well as it's applications are not intended to be run as root.