On 02/02/2016 12:56 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > 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 > That is the version I installed previously and which contains a very old version of kate.