How to install Tea editor on Linux Mint-18.03

To install Tea Editor on Linuxmint-18.03

Tea is open source application written in C++ programming language and its GUI is developed in QT. It works on both Windows and Linux platforms. TEA is compact, configurable and is packed with so many handy features, and it consumes only about 500KB of memory. Some of the features of Tea editor is covered below.


Features

  • Small and Lightweight.
  • Checks spelling mistakes.
  • Inbuilt calendar and organizer.
  • Inbuilt zip or unzip.
  • Supports different kinds of image formats.


Installation

Before starting installation update system repository in the following manner.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [11.5 kB]                              
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease [23.9 kB]                       
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                              
Get:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner amd64 Packages [3,124 B]                 
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]                        
Get:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]                                      
Get:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner i386 Packages [3,124 B]          
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]                  
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [27.4 kB]           
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Get:35 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [15.5 kB]         
Get:36 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse Translation-en [8,344 B]        
Get:37 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages [4,844 B]            
Get:38 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main i386 Packages [4,836 B]             
Get:39 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [7,400 B]        
Get:40 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [3,996 B]        
Fetched 5,932 kB in 11s (535 kB/s)                                                                
Reading package lists... Done


As tea editor is available in default system repository you can directly install them as follows.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install tea
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required

  libcurl3 libmcrypt4

Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  tea-data
Recommended packages:
  antiword
The following NEW packages will be installed:


  tea tea-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 359 not upgraded.
Need to get 567 kB of archives.
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Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name'  may give more details about the above error.
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
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 tea-data (41.1.0-2) ...
Setting up tea (41.1.0-2) ...

In order to access the application from the terminal enter the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # tea
SingleApplication::SingleApplication
fname_data-stylesheet =  " :/themes/TEA" 
CHunspellChecker::CHunspellChecker - start
error: empty dic file /root/en.dic
Hash Manager Error : 2
CHunspellChecker::CHunspellChecker - end
new version, hls cache is updated
rvln::plugins_init()


With this, the method to install Tea editor on Linux Mint 18.03 comes to an end.

FAQ
Q
Whether can install Tea editor on MAC?
A
Yes, you can install Tea editor on MAC
Q
does it support tagging?
A
yes the tea editor supports tagging syatem
Q
How To Install Tea Editor on ubuntu?
A
run the following command:

# apt-get install tea-data
Q
is it vailable in default repo?
A
No you have to add the repo manully
Q
Is this work with windows?
A
TEA is a graphical text editor. Its name is an acronym for Text Editor of the Atomic Era. ... Later on, a version for Linux using GTK + was written, which made it possible to compile the program for both Windows and Linux