SUMMARY *** After updating KDE neon to plasma 6 kile is not starting anymore. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Update kde neon to plasma 6 2. Start kile OBSERVED RESULT Dialog showing with "Kile cannot start because no current version of the okular library was found. Please install the Okular library before starting Kile." okular 24.02.0 is installed. EXPECTED RESULT kile is showing up. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 6.0 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Graphics Platform: Wayland
Same problem for me. I also tried installing libokular5core9 and libokular5core11 to fix it, but that didn't help. I assume this is due to the inline viewer, which never worked for me anyway (because I use xelatex and it only seems to work with pdflatex). Maybe making that component optional could work as a quick workaround?
That's a gold idea. But how to change the setting if the ui is not available?
Sorry, I was maybe a bit unclear about that idea... What I mean is that the developers might change the code, so that the okular-part is not necessary to start kile, so that we might use it until kile is properly ported to kf6. I also tried if I could quickly do this myself by removing all okular-related stuff from the source and fix a few things until it compiles again... but as expected, it wasn't that easy :/. Settings can be changed without the UI by editing ~/.config/kilerc, but that is not enough to make kile start again (otherwise I would not even have noticed this problem).
Unfortunately Kile hasn't had a stable release in many years and even the latest unstable release is 2 years old. However looking at Git the app does seem to have some development ongoing so I'll enquire about that. Otherwise it should be declared unsupported by KDE as there is not currently a release that builds or runs.
Unfortunately the Kile developers say it's not ready yet so there is no currently supported release
I apologise, but although the developer is free to do as they wish, this is BS. Unless it crashes systematically, a slightly unstable kile is vastly more useful than a somewhat unstable one. As it stands, users can't even help by reporting issues.
*** Bug 483165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Agreed, which is why I and others have been gently pushing for a new release for years. Hopefully that new release materializes soon. In the meantime, keep in mind that Neon's policy is to package KDE software vanilla, without patches. Any KDE software that hasn't gotten released in tears and can't be built unpatched therefore is not eligible. If this isn't acceptable, it might be a sign that Neon isn't the right distro for you.