☰
✕
✕

How To Install Kate Text Editor on Popos

To Install Kate Text Editor on Popos

The KDE Advanced Text Editor is a text editor developed by the KDE free software community. It has been a part of KDE Software. Kate is a powerful text editor that supports Syntax highlighting for a wide range of programming languages. It is a lightweight and easy to use a text editor. You can work with multiple files simultaneously. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Kate Text Editor on Popos.

Installation

First, make sure you update the system repository by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease        
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease               
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Then proceed with installation of Kate using this following command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install kate -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  i965-va-driver javascript-common kactivities-bin kactivitymanagerd kate5-data kinit kio kpackagelauncherqml
  kpackagetool5 ktexteditor-data ktexteditor-katepart kwayland-data kwayland-integration liba52-0.7.4 libaacs0
  libass9 libavcodec57 libavutil55 libbasicusageenvironment1 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libcddb2 libchromaprint1
  libcrystalhd3 libdbusmenu-qt5 libdc1394-22 libdca0 libdouble-conversion1 libdvbpsi10 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4
  libebml4v5 libeditorconfig0 libfaad2 libfam0 libgit2-24 libgme0 libgroupsock8 libgsm1 libhfstospell9
  libhttp-parser2.1 libiso9660-8 libjs-jquery libjs-underscore libkate1 libkf5activities5 libkf5archive5
  libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5calendarevents5
  libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data
  libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons-data
  libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5
  libkf5declarative-data libkf5declarative5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5globalaccel-data
  libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-bin
.
.
.
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-kconfig:amd64 (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols:amd64 (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kpackagelauncherqml (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5quickaddons5:amd64 (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons:amd64 (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5plasmaquick5:amd64 (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up plasma-framework (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-kirigami (1.1.0-1) ...
Setting up kate (4:17.04.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-newstuff (5.38.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2.1) ...
Processing triggers for libvlc-bin:amd64 (2.2.6-6) ...

After installation to check , Go to activities and type “Kate”
It shows application icon , click the icon to open .

Application is open
With this, the tutorial to install Kate Text Editor on Popos comes to an end.

Tag : Text Editor Pop OS
FAQ
Q
What is the purpose of installing kate in linuxmint?
A
Kate is a powerful text editor that supports Syntax highlighting for a wide range of programming languages. It is a lightweight and easy to use a text editor. You can work with multiple files simultaneously.
Q
How do you use kate? Tips/Tricks/Workflow?
A
Kate is (only) a text editor (an awesome one) but it has a ton of options plus a number of plugins, so its hard to know all of it well.
Q
How can I print out with Line Numbers using kate?
A
In the Print dialog click on the Options button, choose the Text Settings tab and tick the Print line numbers box.
Q
What are the features of Kate Text Editor?
A
Kate's many features include



Multi-Document Interface

Window tabbing and window splitting

Character encoding support and conversion

Syntax highlighting and bracket matching

Code and text folding
Q
Where did Kate go?
A
It is often thought that Kate is missing, as it is usually not listed in distribution repositories. In fact, it is now part of a larger development package, so you must install kdesdk.