Bluefish is a GTK+ text editor targeted towards programmers and web designers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/bluefish-2.2.14.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c99b6b1ba3e3e70b032936182bb0b387
Download size: 4.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 53 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
desktop-file-utils-0.27 (for updating the desktop database)
enchant-2.6.2 (for spell checking), Gucharmap-15.1.2, PCRE-8.45 and Jing
Install Bluefish by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bluefish-2.2.14 && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
This package installs icon files into the
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
hierarchy and desktop files into the
/usr/share/applications
hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by
updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To
perform the update you must have desktop-file-utils-0.27
(for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the
root user:
gtk-update-icon-cache -t -f --include-image-data /usr/share/icons/hicolor && update-desktop-database