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Bluefish, the free open-source code editor for programmers and web developers, release new 2.4.1 version few days ago.
The new version of this lightweight and fast code editor features split view that allows to view 2 file content side-by-side in same app window, making easy to compare information or work across two files at once.
The bluefish text editor released version 2.4.1 recently. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 via PPA.
Bluefish is a powerful GTK3 text editor for web and software development. It supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
The development of Bluefish editor is quite slow. The new 2.2.13 was released as the latest version more than 2 years since the last. And, it’s a very minor maintenance release that features:
The editor only provides source tarball for downloading at the sourceforge web-page.
To make it easy to install in all current Ubuntu releases, I’ve upload the software package into this unofficial PPA. And, it is built against the rules from Debian upstream.
The PPA supports Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and their based systems with both x86_64 and arm64/armhf CPU architecture types.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/bluefish
Type user password (no visual feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. For the old Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint users, manually refresh the system package cache by running command:
sudo apt update
3. Finally, either run command to install the text editor:
sudo apt install bluefish
Or, open “Software Updater” and use the tool to upgrade the previous Bluefish package to the latest.
For any issue, you can easily restore to the previous 2.2.12 (or 2.2.11 depends on your Ubuntu version), by purging the PPA repository. To do so, open terminal and run command:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/bluefish
Or, you may directly remove the text editor by running command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove bluefish
And, remove the PPA either by running command in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/bluefish
or by removing the source line under “Other Software” tab in “Software & Updates” utility.
Bluefish, a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, released version 2.2.12 a day ago with some minor new features.
Bluefish 2.2.12 release highlights:
UPDATE: as Klaus Vormweg’s PPA is no longer exist, I uploaded the 2.2.12 packages into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. For Ubuntu 22.04, the latest package is already available in system repository.
1. Open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or by searching from ‘Activities’ overview.
When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/bluefish
Type user password when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then run commands to check updates and install the programmers editor:
sudo apt update sudo apt install bluefish
Or launch ‘Software Updater’ and update the package if an old version was installed.
You may remove the PPA repository either via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab, or by running command in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/bluefish
And remove Bluefish programmers editor if you want via command:
sudo apt remove --autoremove bluefish
