[CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

Sun Feb 28 20:59:02 UTC 2016
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On February 28, 2016 1:26:39 PM EST, H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:
>On 02/28/2016 06:53 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:30:44 +0100
>> H wrote:
>>
>>> I initially downloaded geany 1.24 from the EPEL repository but now
>>> wanted to install the plugin package which is not in EPEL. I visited
>>> your webpage , downloaded the Centos 6 x86_64 version of both geany
>1.26
>>> and the and lib-geany, which I assume is the plugin-package, but
>neither
>>> could be installed.
>> You assume incorrectly.  The description field of geany-libgeany rpm
>states:
>>
>> QUOTE:
>> This package contains the core functions of Geany which will be used
>by Geany plugins.
>> END OF QUOTE
>>
>> I have never bothered to compile the actual geany plugins for Centos
>6 due to a lack of demand and interest.  I did compile and make the
>geany plugins for Centos 7 available on my webpage a little while back,
>but that's apparently not what you're looking for.
>>
>>   The first fails with:
>>> geany-1.26-1.el6.x86_64 requires libgeany.so.0()(64bit)
>>> geany-1.26-1.el6.x86_64 requires geany-libgeany = 1.26-1.el6
>>>
>>> and the second with:
>>>
>>> geany-libgeany-1.26-1.el6.x86_64 requires geany = 1.26-1.el6
>>>
>>> which seems catch-22. Would you happen to have both of them
>installable?
>> Install both geany and geany-libgeany at the same time and it will
>work.
>>   
>>> As an aside, it would be great if both of these packages were in
>EPEL so
>>> a simple yum update could work.
>> That I have no control over.  If they made it available then I
>probably wouldn't bother duplicating the effort.  As stated at the top
>of my webpage, it is just stuff that I use that can't (easily) be found
>elsewhere.
>>
>Thank you, installed both at the same time. Now, next question is: how 
>do I get the webkit preview to use for markdown files? There is no 
>mention of it in the plugin manager, nor could I find it in any 
>configuration menu.
>
>Would I now need to download the geany-plugin package from that site
>and 
>compile the plugins from scratch?
>
>Thank you.

I will download the plugin source code and compile from scratch.