How to install Kate 17.12.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Kate 17.12.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

Kate text editor that comes as a default editor loaded with the Kubuntu environment. It is a lightweight and easy to use a text editor. You can work with multiple files simultaneously. It also can be used as a powerful IDE. It is so simple to install Kate 17.12.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 and this tutorial covers the ground on the same issue.

Installation

First, make sure you update the system repository by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Then proceed with installation of Kate using this following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install kate -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.

The following additional packages will be installed:

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Setting up qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons:amd64 (5.44.0-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libkf5plasmaquick5:amd64 (5.44.0-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 (5.44.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up plasma-framework (5.44.0-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up kate (4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qml-module-org-kde-newstuff (5.44.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libvlc-bin:amd64 (3.0.2-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1) ...

After installing you can access the application from the menu as shown here

You can verify the version by navigating to the Help menu

With this, the method to install Kate 17.12.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.