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

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) on Ubuntu 8.04

Binary packages for 8.04 are not in a repository. Download the packages from: http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/ubuntu_8.04/ and install them with

sudo dpkg -i bluefish*.deb

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable) on Ubuntu 9.04 or newer

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

Run updates, to pick up the newly available options

apt-get update

You may see errors at this point, because you've not yet installed the cryptographic key, but that's OK as you're about to do that

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 or 2.0.1 (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/fedora13/

...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 Slackware

Kwick n dirty method

$ ./configure && make

# make install

enjoy you are in Slackware ;)

But please consider to use a Slackbuild

(you know why)

Dependencies

Bluefish depends on Gnome:

consider to install some gnome minimal.

Have a look at dependencies file at third party slackbuilders,

have a look at ./configure issues.

Installing 2.0.0 (current stable)

Bluefish depends now on gvfs if you want to trade with remote files.

GVFS is work in progress, you need almost to have glib 2.18 (Slack 13.0) to hope it works; GSB (2.28.2) use glib2 2.22.4 and gvfs 1.4.3.

If you know how to use any ftp client you do not realy need gvfs!

You can use your bluefish.SlackBuild 1.0 for Bluefish 2.

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 2.0.1 (current stable)

Using Macports

Install Macports.

Run from Terminal.app

sudo port install bluefish

Native

Download the .dmg file , open it and drag the bluefish icon onto Applications

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.