How To Install Bluefish On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian?

How To Install Bluefish On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian?

bluefish

advanced Gtk+ text editor for web and software development

Maintainer: Innocent De Marchi



Section: web

Install bluefish

  • Debian apt-get install bluefish Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install bluefish Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add bluefish Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S bluefish Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install bluefish Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install bluefish Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install bluefish Click to copy

bluefish

advanced Gtk+ text editor for web and software development

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. For validation of CSS/HTML/XML documents you need csstidy, tidy, weblint and/or xmllint. For preview to work, you need a web browser that can view local files given to it on the command line. For PHP or Python bluefish supports php-codesniffer and pylint. Tools not suggested but supported are make, perl, php5-cli and java-compiler.

bluefish-dbg

advanced Gtk+ text editor (debugging symbols)

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 debugging symbols. It is recommended to if you suffer a crash. Then use the gdb program to create a useful backtrace.

Installing bluefish command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of bluefish 2026 package in your OS.