Thanks, I had the same problem and your fix solved it.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075173
Title:
Kile won't open files outside the home directory
To manage
Some additional information:
* launching the program with kile somedir/file.tex opens the file, whether
given from the home directory or from any other one. So does kile
/home/my_user_name/somedir/file.tex. It looks like the only issue is that kile
uses $(HOME) as the base path rather than the
