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 Soon, however, I realized that the TeX distribution was outdated, and I don't really know installing TeX packages without a manager (I was used to MiKTeX under Windows), so I installed the TeX Live 2008 distribution (no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
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Re: Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu
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.
Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu
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.meho_r wrote: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.
Maybe all I need is to tell Kile to use the 2008 files, but I don't know how.
Re: Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu
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.
Re: Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu
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!


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!

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Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu
Hi Keta,
Stefan
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.Keta wrote:I can't install Kile with Synaptic without installing texlive-base (and 5 more texlive-related packages). What can I do?
Stefan
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Re: Kile and Synaptic on Ubuntu
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
Keta