How To Install Gedit On Linux OS

How to install gedit in Linux OS

Gedit is an excellent  GNOME text editor.It provides the full support for internationalized text (UTF-8). It provides the features of Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others). It provides the facility of configurable fonts, colors, line numbers, text wrapping, search and replaces with a support for regular expressions etc.

Method 1

Required dependencies for gedit

gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.20.0
gtksourceview-3.20.3
Itstool-2.0.2
libpeas-1.18.0

Download Gedit

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/3.20/gedit-3.20.2.tar.xz

Installation of Gedit

Run following commands to run Gedit

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-spell &&

#  make

# make install

Method 2

Run following commands to install gedit on CentOS

# yum check-update

# yum update

# yum install gedit

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