How To Install kile on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install kile on CentOS 7. kile is (La)TeX source editor and TeX shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kile on CentOS 7.

What is kile

Kile is a user friendly (La)TeX editor. The main features are * Compile, convert and view your document with one click. * Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands * Templates and wizards makes starting a new document very little work. * Easy insertion of many standard tags and symbols and the option to define (an arbitrary number of) user defined tags. * Inverse and forward search to the corresponding LaTeX line in the editor, or jump from the editor to the corresponding page in the viewer. * Finding chapter or sections is very easy, Kile constructs a list of all the chapter etc. in your document. You can use the list to jump to the corresponding section. * Collect documents that belong together into a project. * Easy insertion of citations and references when using projects. * Advanced editing commands.

We can use yum or dnf to install kile on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kile.

Install kile on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install kile using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kile

Install kile on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install kile using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kile

How To Uninstall kile on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the kile package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kile

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kile on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.