Installing Bluefish
Installing Bluefish on Debian GNU/Linux
Installing 2.0
Use
sudo apt-get install bluefish sudo aptitude install bluefish
or any other frontend for the package manager such as synaptic or simply "add / remove programs".
The version in Debian Sid is always the latest available, see http://packages.debian.org/sid/bluefish . Debian Lenny and Debian Squeeze users may use the procedures below to get the most recent bluefish version.
Installing 2.2 release candidates on Debian Sid and Wheezy
This entry is only for Debian Sid/Wheezy users, who want to test the release candidates too. Official bluefish releases are provided via the Debian archive.
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
Run updates, to pick up the newly available options
sudo 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:
sudo apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring sudo apt-get install bluefish
Installing 2.2 on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian.wgdd.de/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
or put a snippet into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo wget http://debian.wgdd.de/stuff/debian.wgdd.de_squeeze.list -N -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Run updates, to pick up the newly available options
sudo 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:
sudo apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring sudo apt-get install bluefish
Installing Bluefish on Ubuntu Linux
Installing 2.0 on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install bluefish
or any other frontend for the package manager such as aptitude, synaptic or simply "add / remove programs"
Note, that you only need to use the procedures below, if recent bluefish packages are not provided by the Ubuntu archives. This may be the case for released Ubuntu versions after some time. In this case pick up the instructions for your Ubuntu version from below.
Installing 2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 or newer
add the following line that fits your Ubuntu version to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian.wgdd.de/ubuntu lucid main restricted universe multiverse deb http://debian.wgdd.de/ubuntu maverick main restricted universe multiverse
Run updates, to pick up the newly available options
sudo 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:
sudo apt-get install wgdd-archive-keyring sudo apt-get install bluefish
Installing Bluefish on Fedora Linux
Installing 2.0.3
yum install bluefish
Installing 2.2.0 on Fedora 16 / i686
download the rpm from http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/Fedora16/ and run rpm -i bluefish-2.2.0-2.fc16.i686.rpm
Installing Bluefish on Mandriva Linux
To install bluefish on Mandriva, download the latest rpm from http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/mandriva/ Then run the rpm by double-clicking on it. It's that easy. The version for Mandriva 2010.0 x86_64 (i.e. 64 bits) works for Mandriva 2009 Spring x86_64 too.
Or if you are not interested in keeping the download file, you can just click on the above link, click on the latest version, and when the pop-up asks you if you want to download or install, you can just click install.
Installing Bluefish on AltLinux
Installing 2.0
Bluefish 2.0 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
Latest Gentoo stable
emerge bluefish
Latest available
echo 'app-editors/bluefish' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords && emerge bluefish
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 compiles fine in slack 3.1 or slack elite, without gvfs. wget is your friend.
Installing 2.0.3 (current stable)
Bluefish needs gvfs if you want to work with remote files.
- GVFS is work in progress. In Slackware, you need to have glib 2.18 (Slack 13.0); GSB (2.28.2) uses glib2 2.22.4 and gvfs 1.4.3.
Slack 13.37 have glib2-2.28. SBo provide a SlackBuild for gvfs-1.6.7
Installing Bluefish on OpenSolaris
A binary package is not yet available in OpenSolaris, you have to compile from source, see Compiling_Bluefish_from_source.
Installing Bluefish on Mac OS X
Installing 2.2.0 Native (no X11 needed!)
Download Bluefish-2.2.0.dmg from http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/macosx/, open it and drag the bluefish icon onto Applications.
Version 2.2.0 should work on OSX 10.5 and 10.6 and OSX Lion 10.7
Installing 2.0 Using Macports
Install Macports.
Run from Terminal.app
sudo port install bluefish
see https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/editors/bluefish/Portfile
Installing 2.2 Using Fink
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/bluefish
Installing Bluefish on Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 bit)
Installing 2.2.0
download Bluefish-2.2.0-setup.exe from the main download server http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/win32/
This installer needs internet access because it will download gtk library and the spell checking dictionaries for you.
Installing without internet access
download Bluefish-2.2.0-setup.exe from the main download server http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/win32/
Now download the GTK+ installer (gtk-runtime-2.14.7-rev-a.exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/GTK%2B%20for%20Windows/2.14.7%20Rev%20A/gtk-runtime-2.14.7-rev-a.exe/download) and whatever language dictionaries (from http://www.muleslow.net/files/aspell/lang/) you wish to install and place them in a directory called 'redist' in the same folder as the installer. The install will fall back on downloading the file if it does not exist locally or the checksum of the local file does not match the stored value.
Installing Bluefish on Windows 7 (64 bit)
Bluefish 2.2.0 on Windows 7 (64 bit) will fail to start with the newest version of GTK+. You have to manually download GTK 2.14.7 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/files/GTK%2B%20Runtime%20Environment/GTK%2B%202.14/gtk2-runtime-2.14.7-2009-01-13-ash.exe/download and install it prior installing Bluefish itself. This will prevent Bluefish installer from donwloading the newest version.
If you already have GTK+ in newer version, you have to uninstall this one, and install version 2.14.7. Otherwise you won't be able to run Bluefish.
Than download Bluefish-2.2.0-setup.exe from the main download server http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/binaries/win32/ and install it.
Bluefish won't run with any newer version of GTK+ than 2.14.7, so do not upgrade this library. If it happens, you'll have to manually downgrade to mentioned version.