How To Install bluefish-data on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluefish-data on Ubuntu 18.04. bluefish-data is advanced Gtk+ text editor (data)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluefish-data on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is bluefish-data

bluefish-data 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 architecture independent data for the application and its plugins.

There are three methods to install bluefish-data on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-data 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-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bluefish-data

Install bluefish-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bluefish-data

Install bluefish-data Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install bluefish-data

How To Uninstall bluefish-data on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove bluefish-data

Uninstall bluefish-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bluefish-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluefish-data

Remove bluefish-data Configurations and Data

To remove bluefish-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bluefish-data

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluefish-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.