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How to Install Kate text editor on Linux mint 18.03

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To Install Kate on Linux mint 18.03
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 on linuxmint 18.03.

Installation
Let' s first start with updating the system repositories

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                   
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Hit:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                             
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] 
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 323 kB in 2s (158 kB/s)                              
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Kate text editor application.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install kate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:
  kate5-data kinit kio ktexteditor-data ktexteditor-katepart libdbusmenu-qt5 libfam0 libgit2-24
  libhttp-parser2.1 libjs-underscore libkf5activities5 libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data
  libkf5auth5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5calendarevents5 libkf5codecs-data
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Setting up kio (5.18.0-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libkf5newstuff-data (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5newstuff5:amd64 (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libkf5threadweaver5:amd64 (5.18.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kate (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here
Linuxmint_menu

kate text editor application.
kate_text_editor

The version of kate text editor.
version
With this, the method to install kate text editor on Linuxmint 18.03 comes to an end.

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

How to install kate text editor on ubuntu?

A

use the following link to get the installationm of kate text editor in ubuntu

https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-kate-17-12-3-on-ubuntu-18-04/

Q

Is there any alternative of kate text editor?

A

the alternative of kate text editor are,

Notepad++

Atom

Sublime Text

Q

how to remove kate text editor application?

A

use the following command to remove the kate text editor
# apt-get remove kate

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

where to open the kate application after installation in linuxmint?

A

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu

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