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-2.2.17.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7b19a3691c7c5787e98174e58bd6d652
Download size: 4.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 55 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
desktop-file-utils-0.28 (for updating the desktop database)
enchant-2.8.12 (for spell checking), Gucharmap-16.0.2, and Jing
First, disable a plugin requiring functions removed in libxml-2.13.0 or later:
sed '/infbrowser/d' -i src/Makefile.am && autoreconf
Install Bluefish by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bluefish-2.2.17 && 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-0.28 (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