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