How to install Bluefish editor 2.2.10 on Ubuntu 17.04

How to install Bluefish editor 2.2.10 on Ubuntu 17.04

Bluefish is an open source and cross-platform piece of software that provides web developers with an interactive graphical application for editing HTML files and creating websites, as well as to write programming code and shell scripts. It can also be used via integration with GNOME or as standalone application.This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Bluefish editor on Ubuntu.

To know more about the installation procedure of Bluefish on Debian 8.3, visit

https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-bluefish-in-debian-8-3/

Features

• Bluefish starts really quick (even on a netbook) and loads hundreds of files within seconds.
• Project support, enables you to work efficiently on multiple projects, and automatically restores settings for each project.
• Multi-threaded support for remote files using gvfs (depending on your gvfs setup, you' ll have FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and more).
• Open files recursively based on filename patterns and/or content patterns
• In-line spell checker which is programing language aware (spell check comments and strings, but not code), requires libenchant during compilation.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, add the bluefish package into repository via ppa

root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/bluefish-gtk2
 Semi official packages of current Bluefish for Ubuntu stable. These packages are compiled against GTK2. They should work better in non-GTK3 environment like simple window managers.
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
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gpg: /tmp/tmpuje471q0/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 8938CE95D36FE61D: public key " Launchpad PPA for Klaus Vormweg"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories are successfully added in the target system. Now update the machine using the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]                            
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease                                   
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                                             
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/bluefish-gtk2/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB] 
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Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [204 B]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,184 B]
Fetched 202 kB in 3s (55.1 kB/s)   
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the latest repositories. Then install the bluefish package by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# apt-get install bluefish
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  bluefish-data bluefish-plugins
Suggested packages:
  csstidy dos2unix libxml2-utils php-codesniffer pylint tidy weblint-perl | weblint
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Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.8-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Setting up bluefish (1:2.2.10-0zesty0) ...

Launch the bluefish editor from Ubuntu dashboard by typing the package name and click on the icon and run the application.

Now edit the scripts and create web developing application using Bluefish editor.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Bluefish editor is relatively lightweight and easy to use while providing the intergrated development environment.