[CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

[H]

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
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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.