Installing Bluefish

Installing Bluefish on Debian Linux 5.0 (Lenny)

Installing 1.0.x (current stable)

use

apt-get install bluefish
aptitude install bluefish

or synaptic or any other package manager

Installing 1.3.x (unstable)

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

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

Then install the repository cryptographic key:

apt-get update
apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring

apt-get install bluefish-unstable

Installing Bluefish on Ubuntu Linux (8.04 and newer)

Installing 1.0.x (current stable)

apt-get install bluefish

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

Installing 1.3.x (unstable)

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

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

Then install the repository cryptographic key:

apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring

apt-get install bluefish-unstable

Installing Bluefish on Fedora Linux

Installing 1.0.x

yum install bluefish

Installing 2.0.x

To get latest updates use the provided yum enabled repository on:

http://www.bennewitz.com/rpms/    Grab and install your matching release rpm from there.

As an alternative solution you can download the rpm from:

http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/devel/binaries/    manually and execute: 
$ yum localinstall <path/to/downloaded/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

Bluefish 2.0.0-rc3 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 OpenSolaris

Installing 1.0.x (current stable)

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

Installing Bluefish on Mac OS X

Installing 1.0.x ( Stable )

Install Macports.

Run from Terminal.app

sudo port install bluefish

Installing 2.0.x ( Release Candidate )

Install Macports.

Run from Terminal.app

sudo port install bluefish-devel

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

Installing 2.0

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.