How to install jEdit Programming Text Editor on Ubuntu (and Debian)
jEdit's official site describes this product as "a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds...of person-years of development behind it. No doubt you will want to review the features of jEdit before deciding if it's right for you.
There are any number of ways to download and install jEdit depending on what platform you run and what methods you are most comfortable with. This tutorial shows you the easiest way to download and install jEdit on Ubuntu or any Debian-based distro.
This tutorial will require that you work on the command-line as root. You will have to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and add two repositories in order to download jEdit using apt-get. Here goes.
- Open a terminal session.
- Type
sudo vi /etc/apt/source.list.- Enter your password when prompted.
- When the file opens in vi, scroll down to the list of apt repositories.
- Place your cursor at the end of the last repository listing and then press the
"i"(for "insert") key.- Use the arrow key to move to a new line.
- Type the following:
deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/
sourceforge/j/je/jedit/ ./
deb-src http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/
sourceforge/j/je/jedit/ ./- Press Esc to exit Insert.
- Type
:wq!to save your changes and quit vi.- Type apt-get update.
- Type
apt-get install jedit.- When prompted to install, press
"y"for "yes".- After jEdit is downloaded and installed, type
exitto close the terminal session.
Special Thanks to Jennifer for emailing me and letting me know that I needed to update my source URLs