[CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

[H]

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
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> 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.