Install Kile 2.0 in Ubuntu 9.04
June 28, 2009
Like many others, I am very frustrated with the new Kile and Ubuntu Janty has chosen it as default. It is ridiculously slow and the text doesn’t do dynamic word wrap (YES, it doesn’t!). There is a tool to “auto-wrap” but it screws up comments if you use % often as I do. After several months of frustration, I finally uninstalled it and reinstalled the old one. I am not a Linux expert and it is actually much easier than I thought. I probably would have done it couple months ago if I know it is that easy. Simply remove Kile from Synaptic and then download and run the correct version of debian package from this site. this site.
btw, if you forgot to uninstall Kile 2.1 before reinstall 2.0, you may end up having some weird problems. One possible culprit is simply the configuration file is corrupted. A simplest solution is to copy a clean copy from some one else. The configuration file of Kile is ~/.kde/share/config/kilerc
Another note, after reinstalling 2.0, it is better to search kile in synaptic and apply force version Lock Version from Package->Lock Version Force Version… Otherwise, it will switch back to 2.1 after the next update.
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1. Install Kile 2.0 in Ubuntu 9.04 | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu | June 28, 2009 at 10:37 pm
[...] Like many others, I am very frustrated with the new Kile and Ubuntu Janty has chosen it as default. It is ridiculously slow and the text doesn’t do dynamic word wrap (YES, it doesn’t!). More here [...]
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jaunty user | July 24, 2009 at 8:48 pm
very good idea indeed
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Eloy | July 31, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Very good tip! Thanks a lot!
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Seul | September 1, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Thanks mate.
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martin | October 3, 2009 at 1:58 pm
have you checked the command-line option –graphicssystem raster? It is at least workable at my machine with that option
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phsamuel | October 3, 2009 at 5:15 pm
No. But I agree that it probably will speed thing up. But I still can’t bear with the newer version without “auto-wrap”. It is too inconvenient without this feature.
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Guest | October 10, 2009 at 11:43 pm
What package actually shall i download? For Jaunty there is only the 2.1 Version.. :-S
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phsamuel | October 11, 2009 at 12:09 am
You can download the intrepid version (1:2.0.1-1ubuntu1). It runs great on jaunty and I’m happy with that.
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Tofas | October 21, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Thank you, much appreciated!
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Argonaut1881 | October 22, 2009 at 2:03 am
If dynamic word wrap was the only problem, it can be turned on by going to Settings>Configure Kile>Editor+Appearance and enable “Dynamic word wrapping”. And I am surprised that you found Kile 2.1 slower. The PPA version of Kile addressed a lot of the memory leak problems it had so I guess it works fine enough for me.
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Roger | November 19, 2009 at 10:53 am
I enabled “Dynamic word wrapping” and it does not do it as I wish it should. It wraps at the end of the line instead of at 80% of viewable area. Any suggestions?
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bob | October 27, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Kile 2.1 is horrible.
Thanks for the instructions!