How To Install xjed on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xjed on Ubuntu.
What is xjed
xjed is:
Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than xterm with bash), and powerful text editor.
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; …
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)
Tools: directory editor (dired); info (browse GNU info files); mail; rmail; ispell; shell mode; …
The native X11 version provides improved mouse support, key configuration and X selection interaction. If no display is available, xjed falls back to text mode, thus there is no need to install both jed and xjed packages.
Additional tools and modes can be found in the jed-extra package.
There are three methods to install xjed 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 xjed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xjed using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xjed
Install xjed Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xjed using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xjed
Install xjed 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 xjed using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xjed
How To Uninstall xjed on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the xjed package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xjed
Uninstall xjed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xjed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xjed
Remove xjed Configurations and Data
To remove xjed configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xjed
Remove xjed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xjed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xjed
Dependencies
xjed have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xjed package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.