Compiling Bluefish from source

Compiling bluefish from source tarballs

installing the requirements

Build requirements:

• a C compiler (for example gcc or clang-gcc)
• gnu make

Library / header file requirements:

• gtk+ 2 or 3 development files (sometimes called libgtk2.0-dev or libgtk2-devel, or libgtk-3-dev)
• libxml2 development files (sometimes called libxml2-dev or libxml2-devel)

Optional libraries / header files:

• libenchant + development files (for spell checking, libenchant-dev)
• libgucharmap + development files (for the character map side pane plugin, libgucharmap-dev)
• python development files (python-dev or python-devel)

Debian and Ubuntu packages required

apt install  automake autoconf make libtool intltool libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev libenchant-2-dev libgucharmap-2-90-dev python3-dev

for the upcoming 2.2.14 release the following packages are required

apt install automake autoconf make libtool autopoint libgtk-3-dev libxml2-dev libenchant-2-dev libgucharmap-2-90-dev python3-dev

Getting and compiling

• get the latest source from http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/
• unpack
  • for a gzipped file tar -xzf bluefish-2.2.xxxx.tar.gz
  • for a bzipped file tar -xjf bluefish-2.2.xxxx.tar.bz2
• cd bluefish-2.2.xxxx
• run ./configure
• run make
• switch to root and run make install

Compiling bluefish straight from subversion

Building (assumes required packages have been installed)

svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/bluefish/code/trunk bluefish-code
cd bluefish-code/bluefish
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Debian and Ubuntu packages required to build from subversion

apt install libtool autopoint automake autoconf make libgtk-3-dev libenchant-2-dev libgucharmap-2-90-dev libxml2-dev subversion python3-dev