How To install Micro Text Editor on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Micro Text Editor on Ubuntu 17.04

Micro Text Editor' s new version has been released recently and it is an easy-to-use modern terminal based text editor used for Linux as well as other operating systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X platforms. In this tutorial, you will be briefed about the installation process involved with Micro Text Editor on Ubuntu 17.04.

Installing Micro Text Editor

In order to download Micro Text Editor, you need to go to its official website and copy the download link and paste it after wget command. Once run, the package gets downloaded.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/download/v1.3.1/micro-1.3.1-linux64.tar.gz
--2017-08-12 17:14:39--  https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases/download/v1.3.1/micro-1.3.1-linux64.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.113, 192.30.255.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
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Length: 3519829 (3.4M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ micro-1.3.1-linux64.tar.gz’ 
 
micro-1.3.1-linux64 100%[===================> ]   3.36M   313KB/s    in 11s     
 
2017-08-12 17:14:53 (322 KB/s) - ‘ micro-1.3.1-linux64.tar.gz’  saved [3519829/3519829]

root@linuxhelp:~# tar -xvf micro-1.3.1-linux64.tar.gz 
micro-1.3.1/
micro-1.3.1/LICENSE
micro-1.3.1/README.md
micro-1.3.1/LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY
micro-1.3.1/micro

root@linuxhelp:~# cd micro-1.3.1
root@linuxhelp:~/micro-1.3.1# ls -l
total 9228
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1461 1462    1118 Aug  8 20:39 LICENSE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1461 1462   58029 Aug  8 20:39 LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1461 1462 9369024 Aug  8 20:39 micro
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1461 1462    8388 Aug  8 20:39 README.md
 root@linuxhelp:~/micro-1.3.1# ./micro