Where is Kate editor?

[John Thacker]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:49 AM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> José Matos wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 20 May 2008 21:59:39 Jon Roland wrote:
>>>
>>> After installing Fedora 9 and also the various KDE 4 packages, including
>>> KDEBase, which is supposed to contain the Kate editor, I find that it
>>> did not get installed. Katepart and KWrite are there, but not Kate
>>> itself. Am I missing something, or did it get omitted somehow?
>>
>> Since a command is worth a thousand words: ;-)
>>
>> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/kate
>> kdesdk-4.0.4-2.fc9.i386
>
> Though better still in the general case where it is not currently installed:
> $ yum whatprovides /usr/bin/kate
> kdesdk.i386 : ...
>
> You only have to guess the /usr/bin part then ;)

If it is currently installed, OTOH, then a better option is
$ rpm -qf `type kate`
(or `which kate` if you use tcsh or the like)

Why guess anything? ;)