Kate LaTeX Plugin

[swasi]

Hello,

i hope i'm here at the right place to find help for my problem.

I'd like to use Kate as my standard editor for kinda everything. So i looked up a plugin for LaTeX just to make it a little bit more comfortable and i found the "Kate LaTeX typesetting plugin 0.5" on KDE-Apps. I've downloaded the source and managed to compile it. I had a few issues with missing programms like cmake or missing libraries like kdelibs5-dev but i managed to solve it. In the end i had to run the "sudo make install" and it worked.
And now my problem occured:
When i start Kate and check the settings menu the plugin isn't there. It neither appears in the menu nor in the plugins section of kate.
I honestly don't know what to do now or if it's just the wrong way to get this plugin working.

I hope that someone can help me with that problem.

Greetings,
swasi

[Rog132]

At here

Prerequisites

Installed (minimum ?):

- build-essential
- cmake
- kdelibs5-dev

+ lot of dev packages at here...


Source: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=84772


Links:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingSoftware


Compiling and Building

Reading the ../katelatexplugin-0.5/README

mkdir build
$ cd build
/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DDEBIAN_SUCKS=1 ..

Output

...
-- Looking for dgettext - found
-- Found Gettext: built in libc
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The plugin will be installed in /usr/lib/kde4
The UI file will be installed in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kate/plugins/katelatex/
The desktop file will be installed in /usr/share/kde4/services
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: ../Downloads/katelatexplugin-0.5/build

/build$ make

Output

...
[ 88%] Built target katelatexplugin
Scanning dependencies of target pofiles
[100%] Generating katelatexplugin_fr.gmo
[100%] Built target pofiles

/build$ cpack -G DEB

Output

CPack: Create package using DEB
CPack: Install projects
CPack: - Run preinstall target for: katelatexplugin
CPack: - Install project: katelatexplugin
CPack: Create package
CPack: - package: ../Downloads/katelatexplugin-0.5/build/katelatexplugin-0.5-Linux.deb generated.

Clicking the katelatexplugin-0.5-Linux.deb



Installing...

Shutting down all Kate windows.

Testing...



The plugin is in the kate.


Do you have those files installed ?

:~$ dpkg -L katelatexplugin
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/kde4
/usr/lib/kde4/katelatexplugin.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/fr
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/katelatexplugin_fr.mo
/usr/share/kde4
/usr/share/kde4/apps
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kate
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kate/plugins
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kate/plugins/katelatex
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kate/plugins/katelatex/ui.rc
/usr/share/kde4/services
/usr/share/kde4/services/katelatexplugin.desktop

[swasi]

At the first try i followed the INSTALL file with the "sudo make install" at the end.
I didn't try the DEB creation.

I tried it now exactly like you did and it appeared now thank you!
I don't honestly don't know why that happened.. didn't think there is a huge difference between those two methods.

Thank you!