How To Install jed on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
3 minutes • 450 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jed on Ubuntu.
What is jed
jed is:
Jed is a small, fast and powerful text editor, yet starts faster than bash.
Completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. Extensible in the S-Lang scripting language (with a syntax resembling C).
Editing functions: folding support, rectangular cut/paste, regular expression search/replace, incremental searches, search/replace across multiple files, multiple windows, multiple buffers, …
Tools: directory editor (dired), info (browse GNU info files), mail, rmail, ispell, shell mode, …
Special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile, …) for Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, nroff, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, sh. Modes for markup languages include HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX)
Additional tools and modes can be found in the jed-extra package.
There are three methods to install jed on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install jed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jed using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jed
Install jed Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jed using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jed
Install jed Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install jed using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jed
How To Uninstall jed on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the jed package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jed
Uninstall jed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jed
Remove jed Configurations and Data
To remove jed configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jed
Remove jed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jed
Dependencies
jed have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jed package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.