Kile - an Integrated LaTeX Environment

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Browse the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section or read about compiling Kile.

FAQ

I don't have root privileges, can I still install Kile?
Kile complains about "LOG/DVI/PS/PDF file not found" error.
Kile becomes unresponsive and slow after a while.

Q: I don't have root privileges, can I still install Kile?

Yes, you can install Kile in your home directory. You will have to install Kile from source with a special configure switch:
cd $HOME ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.kde After that run make and make install as usual. KDE should be able to find Kile automatically. Just press Alt+F2, type kile and press enter. Kile should start without any problems.

Q: Kile complains about LOG/DVI/PS/PDF file not found.

This is an old bug, it happens sometimes after upgrading from an old version of Kile. You need to restore Kile to its default settings. The easiest way to do this is to remove your own settings. First close Kile then open a Konsole and type
rm $HOME/.kde/share/config/kilerc Then start Kile to activate the default settings.

Q: Kile becomes unresponsive and slow after a while.

For some systems the autosave feature triggers a bug in the underlying filesystem used or in the KDE libraries. The easiest way is to turn off autosave in the Settings->Configure Kile dialog.

In the same way the LyX server emulation also gave problems for users having their home folder on a remote buggy AFS filesystem. This feature can be turned off in the Settings->Configure Kile dialog as well.

How to compile Kile

This section describes how to compile Kile locally, for testing purposes for example. If you want to perform a system-wide installation, it is strongly recommended to install Kile via your distribution's package management system.

Be prepared!

Installing Kile is not difficult to do, but if you don't have the right software installed you will find that it is impossible to do. To compile Kile you will need:

KDE 3.2.x or better. Be sure to check that the KDE development package is also installed. If you compile KDE from source, this is automatic. However if you use an package based distribution you will need to install the KDE development packages.
Qt 3.2.x. Here too, you have to be sure that the Qt development package is installed.
Automake 1.5 and Autoconf 2.5
a recent C++ compiler which supports exceptions, for example gcc-4.1
bunzip2 to decompress .bz2 files.

Get the source!

Get the latest source-code from the download section. Then extract the tar-ball using (for kile-2.0b1.tar.bz2):
tar jxf kile-2.0b1.tar.bz2 or (for kile-2.0b1.tar.gz)
tar zxf kile-2.0b1.tar.gz

Start compiling!

Then change to the kile-2.0b1 directory
cd kile-2.0b1 and run configure.
./configure --prefix=$HOME/kile-bin This will install Kile into the directory $HOME/kile-bin later on.

If configure finished successfully you should run
make and then (after a while) install Kile
make install

Run Kile!

You can start Kile via the following command:
KDEDIRS=$HOME/kile-bin:$KDEDIRS $HOME/kile-bin/bin/kile