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