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/centos I 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.