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about different methods to have bluefish installed (distribution or own installation)
Bluefish aims to be portable, hopefully wherever GTK is ported. A comparatively small set of external libraries are neccessary for it to work. Any recent GNU/Linux distribution or other *NIX with GTK2 installed, will be sufficient. In addition to the list of requirements below, you may also want to look at the section called “system specific notes”. Note: These requirements fit the GTK2-version. If you only have GTK1, you want the last GTK1-version, v0.7.
The main requirements:
Optional requirements:
Compiling Bluefish require a few additional packages. (Do remember that binary packages exists for many platforms. It is likely you won't need to compile ;-) ). Now, lets assume you want to compile, perhaps to get the latest and greatest from CVS. The requirements are as follows: