Bluefish 1?

[Shimon]

yes i know i can build it my self.... but i am talking about an
offical package in hoary


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:37:06 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 02:31:01 +1100, Shimon wrote:
> > can it be included into hoary? please? its very useful editor and has
> > had a lot of bug fixes from 0.13 that have been annoying me.
> 
> I can confirm that 1.0 works well in Ubuntu. It's actually relatively
> easy to install if you have the gcc compiler installed on your system.
> 
> Download the source code .tar from the Bluefish site. Read the README
> and INSTALL files and make sure that you have the appropriate
> libraries installed. I don't remember which libraries I had to install
> but it was easy to install them through the Synaptic application's
> "search" function. Simply look for a subset of the name (e.g. gtkrel)
> and install the appropriate "-dev" or library package. One of the
> libraries has *large* dependencies and will take a while to download
> (I imagine an hour or two if you're on dial-up). You won't be able to
> install the ftp access library since it's apparently too buggy still
> for GNOME.
> 
> Then, follow the instructions in the INSTALL file. I believe it's
> ./configure followed by make followedy by make install. Then, you can
> launch bluefish by typing bluefish at the command line, or by creating
> a menu item via "Oliver's" hint or by creating an icon on the desktop
> (which I ought to figure out how to do).
> 
> To reiterate my starting point in conclusion -- it is (relatively)
> easy to get Bluefish 1.0 functioning. If you can use the command line
> to list the files in a directory and can display a file using (one of
> the following commands) less, more, cat, pico or nano, you ought to be
> able to follow the install instructions.
> 
> Eric.
> 
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