How To Install bluefish-plugins on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluefish-plugins on Kali Linux. bluefish-plugins is advanced Gtk+ text editor (plugins)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluefish-plugins on Kali Linux.

What is bluefish-plugins

bluefish-plugins is:

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports a wide variety of programming and markup languages and has many features, e.g.

  • Customizable code folding, auto indenting and completion
  • Support for remote files operation over FTP, SFTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, etc.
  • Site upload and download
  • Powerful search and replace engine
  • Customizable integration of external programs such as lint, make, etc
  • Snippets plugin to automate often used code
  • Code-aware in-line spell checking
  • Zencoding or Emmet support
  • Bookmarks panel

but is still lightweight and fast.

This package contains the plugins. You will need it for the HTML dialogs, snippets, charmaps etc. So it’s basically necessary.

There are three methods to install bluefish-plugins on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bluefish-plugins Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bluefish-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bluefish-plugins

Install bluefish-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bluefish-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bluefish-plugins

Install bluefish-plugins Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bluefish-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bluefish-plugins

How To Uninstall bluefish-plugins on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the bluefish-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bluefish-plugins

Uninstall bluefish-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bluefish-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluefish-plugins

Remove bluefish-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove bluefish-plugins configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bluefish-plugins

Remove bluefish-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bluefish-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluefish-plugins

Dependencies

bluefish-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluefish-plugins package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.