Jan 16, 2017 · As of Kile 3.0 (beta), now you can either download the .exe file from the Kile Downloads Page or install Kile from the Microsoft Store Share Improve this answer

Nov 18, 2019 · After a Windows update, Kile suddenly no longer does anything. Upon opening Kile, I see [LivePreview-PDFLaTeX] failed to start in the messages window. Running a System Check, everything fails. For example, the test results show: LaTeX (Critical failure, Kile will not function properly) Binary: Could not find the binary for this essential tool.

Jan 10, 2011 · Kile usually does a decent job configuring itself. Are you having problems installing Kile with TeXlive 2010 due to dependency issues? Or can Kile not find the path to your LaTeX binaries, or what?

Jun 9, 2011 · Being on ubuntu I have now removed all installed texlive packages, installed texlive from the official website, removed kile ubuntu packages, compiled kile from source and installed. biber now works :) Kile also appears to but I notice Quickbuild is making a ps and then converting it to pdf. I would prefer it to use pdflatex if possible. –

Oct 5, 2024 · in kile's settings there's a panel where you can edit or change what the various compilation recipes do. you can specify full paths there to ensure that e.g. the quick-build option or whatever you use uses the version in /opt/bin. as a workaround, you can also specify the full path on the command line (e.g. using the konsole.part of kile which gives you a command line within the editor).

@MikeXu if your root.tex file starts with \documentclass (and no other files in the project do, then Kile should automatically find it. If you have lots of files which start with \documentclass and/or root.tex does not start with documentclass, then you might need to tell Kile which file is root.tex. It is pretty easy, just try it. –

May 20, 2015 · I just managed to solve a color problem in kile (i'm using a dark theme on ubuntu and the text in kile side panel had no contrast) using the KDE System Settings which can be found in the Ubuntu Software Center. Go to > Application Appearence-> Colors(sidebar)-> Colors and try to change the background color. Hope it can be useful.

Oct 30, 2013 · I am using Kile 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 13.10. How can I change the editor font size? I went to "Configure Kile" > "Fonts & Colors" > "Font" > "Size" and changed it to 12. But that did not have any effect. What am I doing wrong? NB: This question is not about font sizes in the LaTeX output. It's just about the font size displayed in the editor.

Nov 15, 2018 · My answer is meant to adress issues with kile EDITOR view jumping to the beginning of the (main) .tex SOURCE file... For the pdf view, I prefer to have the document opened in okular with automatic reloading set on.

Jun 26, 2015 · I could reproduce the problem with Kile 4.14.9: Kile expects the root document to contain the \documentclass command. Since it is hidden inside preface.tex, Kile thinks, you want to call LaTeX on a file without \documentclass. There is an easy trick too convince Kile, that this is the right file, add \iffalse\documentclass{article}\fi