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How to install Bluefish – 2.2.10 on Ubuntu – 18.04

To install Bluefish&ndash 2.2.10 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04

Bluefish is a free and open source software that text editor with a variety of tools for programming and development of dynamic websites. It supports HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Ada, D, SQL, etc. It can be also used via integration with GNOME or as a standalone application.

Installing Bluefish

Let' s begin with updating the system repository by making use of the following command. 

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 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
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Get:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe Translation - en  [4,941 kB]
Get:10 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse  i386 Packages  [143 kB]
Get:11 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 Packages  [150 kB]
Fetched 24.6 MB in 37s (671 kB/s)      
Reading package lists... Done

You can install the bluefish by using the following command. 

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install bluefish -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:
  bluefish-data bluefish-plugins libgucharmap-2-90-7
Suggested packages:
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libgucharmap-2-90-7:amd64 (1:10.0.4-1) ...
Setting up bluefish-data (2.2.10-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Setting up bluefish-plugins:amd64 (2.2.10-1) ...
Setting up bluefish (2.2.10-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-0ubuntu2) ..

In order to open the application, you can access it by searching from the menu.

Now the application is launched as you can see from here.

If you want to verify the version you can do that by navigating to help menu.

With this, the method to install Bluefish &ndash 2.2.10 on Ubuntu &ndash 18.04 comes to an end

Tag : Bluefish Ubuntu
FAQ
Q
What are the alternatives for Bluefish?
A
There are so many alternatives are there
"Atom editor notepadd++ and so on"
Q
How to add a file type in Bluefish editor?
A
Click on the Preferences... an icon in the main toolbar to access the Edit preferences panel.



Click on the Filetypes tab to display the Filetypes panel.
Q
I can't press the button to see the page on the web?
A
You have to define your browser in Preferences > External Commands Check your browser, customize the command line to your own personal use.
Q
I tried to edit a python program by Bluefish in Gutsy, but it indented text so that the program could not be run (even if it looked okay). I edited further in nano and fixed the indention the
A
Check the settings for automatic tab or space inserting. I say dont use tabs, as there is no standard for tab witdths, any editor can interpret them differently, and this can screw the python
Q
What is the output of this command in the terminal?
A
Please follow the steps as below "# whereis bluefish bluefish: /usr/bin/bluefish /usr/lib/bluefish /usr/bin/X11/bluefish /usr/share/bluefish /usr/share/man/man1/bluefish.1.gz".