Kile ⇒ Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu

[Keta]

I'm having a hard time with Kile, here's the story:

I'm a new Linux user and I'm using Ubuntu. I wanted to start TeXing as quick as I could, and with the Synaptic package manager I installed the TeX Live distribution and Kile, the best editor I've tried so far. Soon, however, I realized that the TeX distribution was outdated, and I don't really know installing TeX packages without a manager (I was used to MiKTeX under Windows), so I installed the TeX Live 2008 distribution (no without substantial effort).

I uninstalled the 2007 distribution with Synaptic, and the problem is that, due to package dependencies, Kile also got uninstalled (Kile seems to need texlive-base). I can't install Kile with Synaptic without installing texlive-base (and 5 more texlive-related packages). What can I do? I can't find the binaries in the Kile website (am I blind or there are only source files?), and compiling scares me a little bit.

Any help is appreciated, I need Kile! Cheers,

Keta

[meho_r]

This one bothered me too. I can't recommend anything, but at the end I simply install kile from repos with texlive 2007 and packages it needs, and then installed TeXLive 2008 without removing anything. I can confirm that TL2008 works and that's all I needed. If you get no better solution, you may try this one too.

[Keta]

This one bothered me too. I can't recommend anything, but at the end I simply install kile from repos with texlive 2007 and packages it needs, and then installed TeXLive 2008 without removing anything. I can confirm that TL2008 works and that's all I needed. If you get no better solution, you may try this one too.

I tried that, but when compiling a tex file, Kile used the 2007 binaries and packages. For instance, I was writing a XeTeX file with fontspec-version 1.18-package commands, and when compiling from terminal everything goes OK, but when compiling from Kile it shows errors, as it's using fontspec v1.13 package from 2007.

Maybe all I need is to tell Kile to use the 2008 files, but I don't know how.

[meho_r]

Shouldn't it be done with TL2008 installation? You put a tick "Create system links" (or something like that, I can't remember exact name of that option) when started installation? I think this option isn't enabled by default, you have to set it explicitely. BTW, why do you have xetex installed from repos, it isn't a requirement for kile.

[Keta]

Thanks, it works now! All I had to do was check the "symlinks" options, so after reinstalling TeX Live it works!

You're right about xetex, what I was saying happened when I had installed all tex-related packages trough synaptic. When I removed them, and reinstalled Kile with just required packages, Kile said something like "xetex - command not found".

Everything links to the TeX Live 2008 installation now. Many thanks again!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Keta,

I can't install Kile with Synaptic without installing texlive-base (and 5 more texlive-related packages). What can I do?

perhaps you've installed TeX Live 2008 "over" the Ubuntu texlive packages. If you want to avoid the texlive2007 packages next time you could use the tool equivs to create a dummy package simulating texlive, like described here: Kile and TeX Live 2008 on Ubuntu Linux. I've just did it and left a description there.

Stefan

[Keta]

Thanks for the hint Stefan, I always looked for something like that. Although everything goes fine right now and I'm not touching anything just in case, I might give it a try in the future. Cheers,

Keta