Howto: Install kile without tetex

[neoflight]

Tips to install kile from the source without tetex....

Information for this comes from kile webpage.

Kile is an excellent frontend to be used with TeXLive (the most comprehensive LaTeX pack). But if you install it using apt-get or synaptic, tetex will also be installed. If you desire not to use tetex then this will help...

Actually, compiling from sourse is easy. But good to know what packages/libs we need to avoid running into problems. I thought I will share my experience with you...

Enable all the repositories required. If the installation was a fresh one then uncomment all the debs and deb-srcs..

First install all the libs needed for installing kile, tools for compiling and 'make' process, etc

sudo apt-get install build-essential kdelibs-bin kdebase-dev libqt3-mt-dev

These will bring many other libs with them that are required.

So we have all the tools now. Download the latest source here
unpack it and move

tar -jxf kile-1.9.tar.bz2
sudo mv kile-1.9 /usr/local

then

cd /usr/local/kile-1.9

Now the compiliation:
find out where the kde-config is, at the terminal

kde-config --prefix

do

./configure --prefix=/output/from/above

In my case it gave me '/usr'.
if it is successful then run

make
sudo make install

It should be placed in Applications>Office. Or
Alt+F2 --> kile...will launch it...

This is just a reference...Eventhough it brings up many KDE stuff (I use Gnome), I felt its much better/space-saving than all the tetex installations. I use texlive, tips for which are provided in my signature.

Hope this is of some help...Thanks

[sherlock-holmes]

it certainly brings up problems when trying to do upgrades...!!! gnome user might get upset in updating all the kde stuff...

[dada1958]

Tnx for this how to; the first attempt failed but that was my fault

[maulattu]

good

[neoflight]

thanks a lot... i think its working ok with dapper....

[maulattu]

thanks a lot... i think its working ok with dapper....

yes, i'm using dapper8)

[troy7777]

my solution was to install a dummy package that provides tetex. so you can install all the other packages that depends on tetex (like auctex) without installing tetex. then i installed TeXLive.

[snl]

I tried to install Kile following this howto but it always failed during the installation giving the following error

trying to overwrite `/usr/share/apps/katepart/syntax/bibtex.xml', which is also in package kdelibs-data

Please help.

my solution was to install a dummy package that provides tetex. so you can install all the other packages that depends on tetex (like auctex) without installing tetex. then i installed TeXLive.

How do I install the dummy package?

Thank you.

[troy7777]

How do I install the dummy package?

i got the instruction from this forum, too, a while back. it wasn't specifically tetex. unfortunately, i could not find the original post. so, credit goes to the original poster.

here's how i did it. i'm assuming you are doing all these in a terminal window.

1. you need to install the equivs package. i think it's in universe, so activate the necessary line in your sources.list file. then do:

sudo apt-get install equivs

2. create a text file called tetex-dummy.control and put the following:

Section: TeX Authoring
Package: tetex-dummy
Provides: tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, tetex-doc, tetex-extra, tex-common
Description: Dummy package for tetex so that TeXLive can be installed.

3. create the package.

equivs-build tetex-dummy.control

this will create, among other things, a tetex-dummy-xxx.deb

4. install the deb file you created:

sudo dpkg -i tetex-dummy-xxx.deb

5. install kile and TeXLive!

hope this helps.

[neoflight]

i got the instruction from this forum, too, a while back. it wasn't specifically tetex. unfortunately, i could not find the original post. so, credit goes to the original poster.

here's how i did it. i'm assuming you are doing all these in a terminal window.

1. you need to install the equivs package. i think it's in universe, so activate the necessary line in your sources.list file. then do:

sudo apt-get install equivs

2. create a text file called tetex-dummy.control and put the following:

Section: TeX Authoring
Package: tetex-dummy
Provides: tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, tetex-doc, tetex-extra, tex-common
Description: Dummy package for tetex so that TeXLive can be installed.

3. create the package.

equivs-build tetex-dummy.control

this will create, among other things, a tetex-dummy-xxx.deb

4. install the deb file you created:

sudo dpkg -i tetex-dummy-xxx.deb

5. install kile and TeXLive!

hope this helps.

excellent....i will try this and will let u know.....it might be a better idea than compiling from the source... thanks