HOW TO INSTALL BLESS HEX EDITOR (HEXADECIMAL EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST HEX EDITOR FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Bless hex editor (hexadecimal editor) in Ubuntu 16.04. Bless is a open source best hex editor application used to create & edit hexadecimal files. It’s an nice light weight application written using GTK# and Mono mainly developed for GNU Linux platform but can be installed in any platform that contains GTK# and Mono.

Bless Hex editor comes with some nice features mentioned below :

• Bless hex editor (hexadecimal editor) is a cross platform application available for major operating systems like Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
• Can open any number windows using Tab.
• You can quickly find for some content and replace it.
• We have advance level of copy and paste feature in Bless Hex editor (hexadecimal editor).
• You can use Bless best hex editor to edit large number of data files and also block devices.
• One of the best part of this application is you can get more features as per your need by installing required plugins.
• By default you can export data in .txt and .html format but for more other formats you can use plugins.

Follow the below steps to install Bless Hex editor (Hexadecimal Editor) in Ubuntu 16.04 – A best Hex editor for Linux

Before we start the installation let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update  # Update Packages & Repositories
[sudo] password for elinuxbook: 
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease            
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                       
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now we are ready to install Bless Hex editor (hexadecimal editor). To install the package we don’t have to install any 3rd party PPA Repository as Bless best hex editor is a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So let’s install the package using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install bless   # Install Bless hex editor Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bluefish-data bluefish-plugins gnome-icon-theme libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus-glib2.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil libdbus2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil libgdata2.1-cil
  libgkeyfile1.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgudev1.0-cil libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil
  libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil
  libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil
  libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libqt4-designer libqt4-qt3support libtaglib2.1-cil libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common
  libwnck-common libwnck22 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 mplayer2 python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxversion
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  docbook-xml libglade2-0 libglade2.0-cil librarian0 rarian-compat sgml-data
Suggested packages:
  docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-xsl docbook-defguide monodoc-gtk2.0-manual perlsgml w3-recs opensp libxml2-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bless docbook-xml libglade2-0 libglade2.0-cil librarian0 rarian-compat sgml-data
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 398 not upgraded.
Need to get 833 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,595 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation

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As you can see above we have successfully installed the Bless Hext editor package. To confirm the same you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l  bless  # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  bless                                0.6.0-5                 all                     A full featured hexadecimal editor

Now to open the application just type the command bless on the shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ bless   # Open the Bless Hexadecimal editor Package

Package Version :

You can also open the Bless Hex editor application using your search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

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To uninstalled the Bless best hex editor package refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r  bless   # Uninstalled Bless Hexadecimal editor Package
(Reading database ... 183869 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bless (0.6.0-5) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...

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