HOW TO INSTALL JEDIT FREE TEXT EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A JAVA PROGRAMMING TEXT EDITOR FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install jedit free text editor in Ubuntu 16.04. jedit is a java programming text editor application mainly developed for software developers. The main developer of this application is Slava Pestov initially written this application on year 1998 using Java programming language and released under GNU GPLv2 license. edit free text editor is a nice light weight and user friendly application comes with various features mentioned below :

• Jedit is a cross platform application comes for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
• There are 100+ official plugins are available which can be used to get more features.
• Jedit Java programming text editor application can be used to coding multiple programming languages i.e. HTML, Java, XML, CSS…etc..
• Supports Unicode & UTF8 character format.
• Jedit free text editor supports 200+ Languages.
• Auto complete feature is available during typing the code’s of programming languages.

As Jedit is a completely open source application, you can download it’s source code for development. For more features and information of Jedit Java programming text editor you can visit the official website.

Follow the below steps to install jedit free text editor in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best java programming text editor for Linux

Before we start the installation of Jedit free text editor let’s update the Packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
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
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 102 kB in 3s (28.8 kB/s)   
Reading package lists... Done

After updating the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the jedit java programming text editor package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install jedit   # Install the Jedit text editor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre default-jre-headless fonts-dejavu-extra java-common java-wrappers libgif7 openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
Suggested packages:
  default-java-plugin icedtea-8-plugin fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-indic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java default-jre default-jre-headless fonts-dejavu-extra java-common java-wrappers jedit libgif7 openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 305 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 31.1 MB/31.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 118 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   ---> Enter 'y' to continue the installation

As you can see above we have successfully installed jedit free text editor package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l  jedit   # 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  jedit                                5.3.0+dfsg-1            all                     Plugin-based editor for programmers

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

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ jedit   # Open the jedit free text editor

You can also open the jedit java programming text editor application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the jedit free text editor Package use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r jedit   # Uninstall the Package
(Reading database ... 175145 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing jedit (5.3.0+dfsg-1) ...
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 doc-base (0.10.7) ...
Processing 3 removed doc-base files...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

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