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How to Install NEdit on Ubuntu 18.04

To Install NEdit on Ubuntu 18.04
NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a text editor and source code editor for the X Window System. It has an interface similar to text editors on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, rather than to older UNIX editors like Emacs. With this, the method to install NEdit on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

Installation.

Let's first start with updating the system repositories

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                    
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]                   
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 247 kB in 1s (173 kB/s)     
Reading package lists... Done

Finally, install the NEdit application.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install nedit -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  csh
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nedit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 540 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/676 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,367 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package nedit.
(Reading database ... 131710 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nedit_1%3a5.7-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nedit (1:5.7-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up nedit (1:5.7-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

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

Now, you can able to use the NEdit application.

With this, the method to install NEdit on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Text Editor Ubuntu
FAQ
Q
How to Install NEdit on Ubuntu?
A
# apt-get install nedit
Q
NEdit is slow and pages continuously on my 8MB Linux system. What can I do?
A
On most Unix workstations, 8MB of RAM is actually insufficient to run X and Motif properly. Some Linux users get by with it and Linux itself seems to be quite memory efficient, but you really should have 12 or 16 if you're going to be using X much. NEdit would not be my first choice in editors on an 8MB system.
Q
What is NEdit on Ubuntu?
A
NEdit, the Nirvana editor, is a text editor and source code editor for the X Window System. It has an interface similar to text editors on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, rather than to older UNIX editors like Emacs.
Q
When I try to use nc to start an nedit server, for instance?
A
nc (filename)
I receive the following error message:

(filename): forward host lookup failed:
Host name lookup failure: Connection refused
Q
When NEdit starts up, I get errors?
A
The solution is either to start Netscape last, after all, other applications that you might want to run or better, tell Netscape how many colors it is allowed to allocate. Fortunately, you can do this with a resource setting:



Netscape*maxImageColors: 80