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How to install Geany text editor on linuxmint-18.03

To install Geany text editor on linuxmint-18.03
Geany is a lightweight IDE (Integrated Development Environment) text editor using the GTK2 toolkit. It was developed to provide a small and faster IDE for users for editing files. It is features of geany Syntax highlighting, code completion, symbol lists and many more.

Installation

Update your system repository using the apt-get command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                  
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                  
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                    
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                     
Ign:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease        
Hit:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                       
Reading package lists... Done 

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Install the Geany text editor application using the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install geany -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  geany
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 353 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/977 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,956 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package geany.
(Reading database ... 221463 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../geany_1.27-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking geany (1.27-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up geany (1.27-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
linuxhelp ~ #

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here

Geany text editor application is shown below.

The version of Geany text editor application is available in the Help menu

With this, the method to install Geany text editor on linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end.

Tag : Linux Mint DOCSIS
FAQ
Q
Does Geany have incremental search?
A
Case-insensitive forward incremental search is via the search field in the toolbar. For reverse incremental search, start a forward search then use your key for Find Previous.
Q
Can Geany show me multiple files at the same time?
A
Geany provides a tabbed main editor window, but does not support split windows in the core. There is a Split Window plugin which should work fine for viewing another document next to the main editor notebook. You can also run several instances of Geany simultaneously.
Q
Can you suggest any best terminal application (like putty software) for Android?
A
You can try Terminus App from playstore, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.server.auditor.ssh.client&hl=en
Q
What do you prefer the Best CLI text editor for linux?
A
We suggest you to use Vim or Nano
Q
Anyother GUI text editors like these?
A
you can try Geany, Sublime, Gedit, Kate