Why does (inf + 0j)*1 evaluate to inf + nanj?

Is the order of words purely based on convention?

Why is STARTTLS still used?

Suffocation while cooking under an umbrella?

How to deal with a Homophobic PC

Passiflora Snow Queen is drying out

Why, even after his imprisonment, people keep calling Hannibal Lecter "Doctor"?

How to justify getting additional team member when the current team is doing well?

Are fuzzy sets appreciated by OR community?

How do you program Babbage's Difference Engine?

There are 51 natural numbers between 1-100, proof that there are 2 numbers such that the difference between them equals to 5

Why is 6. Nge2 better, and 7. d5 a necessary push in this game?

I am not a pleasant sight

A food item only made possible by time-freezing storage?

Why is a road bike faster than a city bike with the same effort? How much faster it can be?

Do we have any particular tonal center in mind when we are NOT listening music?

Does every piano need tuning every year?

What does Sartre mean by "pédéraste" - pederast or homosexual?

Why is volatility skew/smile for long term options flatter compare to short term options?

We are on WHV, my boyfriend was in a small collision, we are leaving in 2 weeks what happens if we don’t pay the damages?

A famous scholar sent me an unpublished draft of hers. Then she died. I think her work should be published. What should I do?

Interchange `colon` and `:`

With an option to reduce any pair satisfying a relation, repeatedly reduce a collection.

Difference between types of yeast

How do I redirect from a built-in bin to execute an AppImage instead?

How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don't have permission to write to?How to redirect output to a file and stdoutHow can I redirect and append both stdout and stderr to a file with Bash?How to download a file from server using SSH?Why can't I set the JAVA_HOME VARIABLE in Ubuntu 12.04?Using multiple versions of java in ubuntuediting .bashrc does not change JAVA_HOMEManually built python 2.7.10 on GNU/Linux loads .so of old python2.7.6 installed from packagesReplace default perl on Ubuntu 16.04in which order will ubuntu search bin-folders for executables?

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0;

1

2

Scenario: the current version of Kate in Ubuntu 18LTS points at their customized version (which doesn't appear to support regex search capability). The bin is: /usr/bin/kate.

Desired solution: run the Kate AppImage (which has the regex search/replace functionality). The AppImage currently resides in ~/Downloads.

Question: how do I redirect the system to execute the AppImage version of Kate, instead of the built-in version?

Can I simply create a link to the AppImage in /usr/bin?

linux ubuntu hardlink kate appimage

share|improve this question

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

1

2

Scenario: the current version of Kate in Ubuntu 18LTS points at their customized version (which doesn't appear to support regex search capability). The bin is: /usr/bin/kate.

Desired solution: run the Kate AppImage (which has the regex search/replace functionality). The AppImage currently resides in ~/Downloads.

Question: how do I redirect the system to execute the AppImage version of Kate, instead of the built-in version?

Can I simply create a link to the AppImage in /usr/bin?

linux ubuntu hardlink kate appimage

share|improve this question

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

Scenario: the current version of Kate in Ubuntu 18LTS points at their customized version (which doesn't appear to support regex search capability). The bin is: /usr/bin/kate.

Desired solution: run the Kate AppImage (which has the regex search/replace functionality). The AppImage currently resides in ~/Downloads.

Question: how do I redirect the system to execute the AppImage version of Kate, instead of the built-in version?

Can I simply create a link to the AppImage in /usr/bin?

linux ubuntu hardlink kate appimage

share|improve this question

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

share|improve this question

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

share|improve this question

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

edited Mar 30 at 22:42

Kurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

asked Mar 28 at 18:11

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

0

Yes, it appears you can... i.e. in my case I replaced the existing kate bin with a link that points to the appimage:

# 1st remove the existing kate binary
# (cp kate somewhere first if you want to keep a copy)
sudo rm /usr/bin/kate

# 2nd create a link in the system bin that points to the appimage
sudo link [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage /usr/bin/kate

Done! The system will now execute the appimage when 'kate' is executed (e.g. via context menus).

=========================

UPDATE...

The above solution kinda works... it does run the appimage, however the parameters normally passed to kate (i.e. file to open) are lost in the hard link.

So... the better solution is to create a simple executable shell script (named 'kate' in the /usr/bin directory) to execute the appimage:

#!/bin/sh
exec [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage "$@"

This passes any provided parms to the appimage.

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 29 at 0:51

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

0

You may want to keep (for whatever reasons) your system-installed Kate in /usr/bin/kate...

Then do not touch it. Instead create a directory in your $HOME named bin (it may already be present depending on the Linux distro you run).

Inside that directory, create a symlink:

ln -sf ~/Downloads/kate.AppImage ~/bin/kate

This may already work. If not, you have to move the ~/bin directory to the front of your path:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH # if you use Bash

To permanently modify this $PATH, add this same line into $HOME/.bashrc

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

Your Answer

StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function ()
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function ()
StackExchange.using("snippets", function ()
StackExchange.snippets.init();
);
);
, "code-snippets");

StackExchange.ready(function()
var channelOptions =
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
;
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
createEditor();
);

else
createEditor();

);

function createEditor()
StackExchange.prepareEditor(
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader:
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"u003ecc by-sa 4.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
,
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
);



);

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);

Sign up using Google

Sign up using Facebook

Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f55404289%2fhow-do-i-redirect-from-a-built-in-bin-to-execute-an-appimage-instead%23new-answer', 'question_page');

);

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

0

Yes, it appears you can... i.e. in my case I replaced the existing kate bin with a link that points to the appimage:

# 1st remove the existing kate binary
# (cp kate somewhere first if you want to keep a copy)
sudo rm /usr/bin/kate

# 2nd create a link in the system bin that points to the appimage
sudo link [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage /usr/bin/kate

Done! The system will now execute the appimage when 'kate' is executed (e.g. via context menus).

=========================

UPDATE...

The above solution kinda works... it does run the appimage, however the parameters normally passed to kate (i.e. file to open) are lost in the hard link.

So... the better solution is to create a simple executable shell script (named 'kate' in the /usr/bin directory) to execute the appimage:

#!/bin/sh
exec [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage "$@"

This passes any provided parms to the appimage.

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 29 at 0:51

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

0

Yes, it appears you can... i.e. in my case I replaced the existing kate bin with a link that points to the appimage:

# 1st remove the existing kate binary
# (cp kate somewhere first if you want to keep a copy)
sudo rm /usr/bin/kate

# 2nd create a link in the system bin that points to the appimage
sudo link [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage /usr/bin/kate

Done! The system will now execute the appimage when 'kate' is executed (e.g. via context menus).

=========================

UPDATE...

The above solution kinda works... it does run the appimage, however the parameters normally passed to kate (i.e. file to open) are lost in the hard link.

So... the better solution is to create a simple executable shell script (named 'kate' in the /usr/bin directory) to execute the appimage:

#!/bin/sh
exec [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage "$@"

This passes any provided parms to the appimage.

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 29 at 0:51

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

Yes, it appears you can... i.e. in my case I replaced the existing kate bin with a link that points to the appimage:

# 1st remove the existing kate binary
# (cp kate somewhere first if you want to keep a copy)
sudo rm /usr/bin/kate

# 2nd create a link in the system bin that points to the appimage
sudo link [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage /usr/bin/kate

Done! The system will now execute the appimage when 'kate' is executed (e.g. via context menus).

=========================

UPDATE...

The above solution kinda works... it does run the appimage, however the parameters normally passed to kate (i.e. file to open) are lost in the hard link.

So... the better solution is to create a simple executable shell script (named 'kate' in the /usr/bin directory) to execute the appimage:

#!/bin/sh
exec [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage "$@"

This passes any provided parms to the appimage.

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 29 at 0:51

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

# 1st remove the existing kate binary
# (cp kate somewhere first if you want to keep a copy)
sudo rm /usr/bin/kate

# 2nd create a link in the system bin that points to the appimage
sudo link [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage /usr/bin/kate

#!/bin/sh
exec [directory where the appimage resides]/Kate.AppImage "$@"

share|improve this answer

edited Mar 29 at 0:51

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

answered Mar 28 at 18:31

Jay MarmJay Marm

41633 silver badges1111 bronze badges

0

You may want to keep (for whatever reasons) your system-installed Kate in /usr/bin/kate...

Then do not touch it. Instead create a directory in your $HOME named bin (it may already be present depending on the Linux distro you run).

Inside that directory, create a symlink:

ln -sf ~/Downloads/kate.AppImage ~/bin/kate

This may already work. If not, you have to move the ~/bin directory to the front of your path:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH # if you use Bash

To permanently modify this $PATH, add this same line into $HOME/.bashrc

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

0

You may want to keep (for whatever reasons) your system-installed Kate in /usr/bin/kate...

Then do not touch it. Instead create a directory in your $HOME named bin (it may already be present depending on the Linux distro you run).

Inside that directory, create a symlink:

ln -sf ~/Downloads/kate.AppImage ~/bin/kate

This may already work. If not, you have to move the ~/bin directory to the front of your path:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH # if you use Bash

To permanently modify this $PATH, add this same line into $HOME/.bashrc

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

You may want to keep (for whatever reasons) your system-installed Kate in /usr/bin/kate...

Then do not touch it. Instead create a directory in your $HOME named bin (it may already be present depending on the Linux distro you run).

Inside that directory, create a symlink:

ln -sf ~/Downloads/kate.AppImage ~/bin/kate

This may already work. If not, you have to move the ~/bin directory to the front of your path:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH # if you use Bash

To permanently modify this $PATH, add this same line into $HOME/.bashrc

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

ln -sf ~/Downloads/kate.AppImage ~/bin/kate

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH # if you use Bash

share|improve this answer

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges

answered Mar 30 at 22:41

Kurt PfeifleKurt Pfeifle

68.2k1515 gold badges186186 silver badges283283 bronze badges