Finally found it through trial and error: it's in kdesdk4.

(Isn't one of the reasons of computers and all those wonderful commands like 
grep, sort, less, and so on to make it easy to find things like that?  Why 
can't I just search all the ports, whether installed or not, and find which one 
provides a particular program?)



Hal

On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:

> 
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Scott Webster wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Hal Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I've found a few pages, when Googling, that reference people using Kate on 
>>> MacPorts.  In one case it's a command line to run it.  In that case, 
>>> they're running from /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/Kate.app, but I don't see 
>>> that in my KDE4 folder and I don't see Kate as a separate package in 
>>> MacPorts.  I also don't see a way to search listings of ports to see if a 
>>> package provides a particular program (a file, yes, but not a program if it 
>>> has a different name than the file).
>>> 
>>> What do I need to install to get Kate on KDE4?
>> 
>> Kate is in kdebase, so I would assume that in macports that it is in
>> the kdebase4 port (for kde4, kdebase3 for kde3).
>> 
>> If you have kdebase4 installed you should be able to run "port
>> contents kdebase4" to see which files it has installed, one of which
>> should be the executable for kate.
> 
> Thanks for the "contents" command for port.  I'm going through it, but, of 
> course, when you're new you miss a few things and I was looking more for 
> something that would search all packages.  I did check, using "contents," the 
> kdebase4 package, but found no reference to kate anywhere in there.  I did 
> find, under the kappfinder directory (/opt/local/share/apps/kappfinder/apps) 
> indications of many programs that I don't see listed anywhere on my system.  
> I also used the find command (as in from the shell, not a port command) to 
> see if I could find it and did find a director, katepart 
> (/opt/local/share/apps/katepart).  My guess is it's in there and if I could 
> actually start KDE in some way that I might be able to run it from the menu, 
> but I'm not sure.  But no matter what I did, I could NOT find a file named 
> "kate" and on Linux, I know that's the filename.
> 
> I would think, as you pointed out, that it'd be in the kdebase4, but I can't 
> find an executable in there, not within /opt/local, or within 
> /Applications/MacPorts (I'm using find ./ -name *kate*).
> 
> Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't seem to be there -- but I'm willing to be 
> proven an idiot if someone can show me that it's obvious and I missed it!
> 
> 
> Hal
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