installing a binary distribution

Different packages -- different installation. We'll cover only a few approaches here[5], since the installation is very system-specific ;-). Lets have a look at some different systems:

For Debian users this is very simple. To download, install and configure bluefish in One Swift Move, run

$ su - && apt-get update && apt-get install bluefish

You can check if the version available through apt is the latest -- see the Bluefish homepage, and compare the version there with what apt-cache show bluefish tells you. If there's a newer version on the Bluefish site, download it and install the package like this: dpkg -i bluefish-ver.deb

For rpm based distributions, first check if your distribution has a recent Bluefish version. If it does not, download the rpm for your distribution from any of the Bluefish mirrors. Next, installing a downloaded rpm is as simple as pointing and clicking in your favourite gui package manager, or issuing the following command from the command line: (as root)

# rpm -Uvh bluefish-ver.rpm

If you're using FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD, we probably won't need to tell you how to use your favourite package system. ;-)



[5] If you want to contribute a description on how to install Bluefish on your system, just drop us a note. :-)