Kate-4.12.2

Introduction to Kate

This package provides two texteditors: Kate and KWrite. Kate is a powerful programmer's text editor with syntax highlighting for many programming and scripting languages. KWrite is the lightweight cousin of Kate.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform.

Package Information

Kate Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.12.2

Recommended

Optional

QJson-0.8.1 and PyKDE4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kate

Installation of Kate

Install Kate by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DINSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX=TRUE \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DINSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX=TRUE: This option is set to install the KDE Python objects in the correct place.

Contents

Installed Programs: kate and kwrite
Installed Libraries: libkateinterfaces.so, libkatepartinterfaces.so, libkdeinit4_kate.so, libkdeinit4_kwrite.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4
Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/kate and several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

kate

is the KDE text editor.

Last updated on 2014-02-28 15:16:23 -0800