https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433795
Bug ID: 433795
Summary: Cannot install kate on RHEL7
Product: kate
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: application
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: h2+b...@fsfe.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
I want to install a modern version of Kate on RHEL7. The machine is not
connected to the internet due to company policy.
I have tried all the fancy pre-packaging systems that are supposed to solve the
problem of deploying a non-system binary, but none of them work.
Flatpack:
It is available on RHEL7, yay. But there is no documentation whatsoever of how
to use this without an internet connection.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.kate provides no downloadable package
just a "ref"-package. I have even looked all over
https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Flatpak/job/Kate_x86_64_flatpak for a
downloadable artefact, but there seems to be none.
Snap:
It is available on RHEL7 and I could bribe my admin to activate the daemon and
create the necessary sockets/folders. But the package (a) needs root to install
and (b) doesn't seem to contain everything that it needs.
Appimage:
Ok, so this one is supposed to be straightforward, right? Downloaded the binary
from https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kate_Release_appimage/ and copied it to
the system.
Tried to execute... get Symbol mismatches in libstdc++. PRELOAD newer libstdc++
from a local install of GCC, get symbol mismatches in glibc. Manually install
older GLIBC and libm and preload those -> App segfaults on start.
Summary:
None of the fancy new install methods seems to work, and I am still stuck with
Kate from 7 years ago :'(
I know that packaging for linux is hard, but I really thought that old machines
and bad/no connectivity are exactly the use-cases all the new formats are
supposed to solve. Why would I use them on a system that has up-to-date Kate
already in its regular packages?
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