Installing Bluefish

Installing Bluefish on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny)

Installing 1.0.x (old stable)

use

apt-get install bluefish
aptitude install bluefish

or synaptic or any other package manager

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

add the following line, that fits your Debian version, to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb     http://debian.wgdd.de/debian lenny main contrib non-free

or put a snippet into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

sudo wget http://debian.wgdd.de/stuff/debian.wgdd.de_lenny.list -N -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Then install the repository cryptographic key and Bluefish:

apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring
apt-get install bluefish

Installing Bluefish on Debian GNU/Linux Sid or Squeeze

Installing 1.0.x (old stable)

use

apt-get install bluefish
aptitude install bluefish

or synaptic or any other package manager

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb     http://debian.wgdd.de/debian sid main contrib non-free

or put a snippet into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

sudo wget http://debian.wgdd.de/stuff/debian.wgdd.de_sid.list -N -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Then install the repository cryptographic key and Bluefish:

apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring
apt-get install bluefish

Installing Bluefish on Ubuntu Linux (8.04 and newer)

Installing 1.0.x (old stable)

apt-get install bluefish

or any other frontend for the package manager such as aptitude, synaptic or simply "add / remove programs"

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb     http://debian.wgdd.de/ubuntu jaunty main restricted universe multiverse

or put a snippet into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

sudo wget http://debian.wgdd.de/stuff/debian.wgdd.de_ubuntu.list -N -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Then install the repository cryptographic key and Bluefish:

apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring
apt-get install bluefish

Installing Bluefish on Fedora Linux

Installing 1.0.x

yum install bluefish

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

To get latest updates use the provided yum enabled repository...

http://www.bennewitz.com/rpms/endurs_repo_i686-release-1.0-9.noarch.rpm

As an alternative solution you can download the rpm from...

http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/fedora12/

...manually and execute: sudo yum localinstall <path/to/downloaded/bluefish*.rpm>.

Installing Bluefish on AltLinux

Installing 1.0

Bluefish can be installed on Alt Linux 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, p5, 5.1 or Sisyphus.

The versions provided by our apt servers are:

• Alt Linux 3.0 - 1.0
• Alt Linux 4.0 - 1.0.5
• Alt Linux 4.1 - 1.0.7
• Alt Linux p5 - 1.0.7
• Alt Linux 5.1 - 1.0.7
• Alt Linux Sisyphus - 1.0.7
  
  

To install use:

apt-get install bluefish

or use synaptic or any other package manager.

Alt Linux Sisyphus also provides 1.3.8 (bluefish-unstable). To install do:

apt-get install bluefish-unstable

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

Bluefish 2.0.0 currently is not in Alt Linux repos, but will soon appear in Sisyphus.
For the moment, to install it you have to:

wget http://alt.u-nix.eu.org/bluefish/bluefish-2.0.0rc3-alt1.i586.rpm
wget http://alt.u-nix.eu.org/bluefish/bluefish-common-2.0.0rc3-alt1.noarch.rpm
rpm -i bluefish-common-2.0.0rc3-alt1.noarch.rpm bluefish-2.0.0rc3-alt1.i586.rpm

If you want to build it on your system, just do:

wget http://alt.u-nix.eu.org/bluefish/bluefish-2.0.0rc3-alt1.src.rpm
rpm -i bluefish-2.0.0rc3-alt1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/RPM/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb bluefish-2.0.0rc3.spec
cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch
rpm -i bluefish-common-2.0.0rc3-alt1.noarch.rpm

For i586 do:

cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586
rpm -i bluefish-2.0.0rc3-alt1.i586.rpm

For x86_64 do:

cd x86_64
rpm -i bluefish-2.0.0rc3-alt1.x86_64.rpm

Installing Bluefish on Gentoo

Installing 1.0.x (old stable)

run

emerge bluefish

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

it is at this moment unknown when 2.0.0 will hit Gentoo. Probably this won't take long.

Installing Bluefish on OpenSolaris

Installing 1.0.x (old stable)

search for bluefish in the package manager, select and click apply.

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

Not yet available in OpenSolaris, you have to compile from source, see Compiling_Bluefish_from_source.

Installing Bluefish on Mac OS X

Installing 1.0.x (old stable)

Install Macports.

Run from Terminal.app

sudo port install bluefish

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

Install Macports.

Run from Terminal.app

sudo port install bluefish-devel

Installing Bluefish on Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 bit)

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

download the installer from the main download server http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/win32/

The installer needs internet access because it will download gtk and spell checking dictionaries for you.