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There are two main methods for installing Bluefish: Compile from source or install a binary package. Binary installation is easiest, so we will cover that first. There are a few different approaches, caused by the differences between systems. We will start off by summarizing a few really quick and simple approaches before dealing with this problem more extensively.

* Debian: run <tt>'''su - && apt-get update && apt-get install bluefish'''</tt>
* Red Hat, Mandrake (and other Linux distributions that support rpm): Download the latest .rpm from the [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ Bluefish website]
* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, and DarwinPorts distribute Bluefish through their packaging systems.
* To compile, or install on another platform, see [[Man 2 ch02s04|Section 4, “Installing a Bluefish Source Distribution”]].


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