Install Jedit in ubuntu

**Aidan 12** · 24-11-2009

Hi everyone
I am new to java, for few days I am programming in java. Currently I am using notepad as my editor to edit java files. One of my friends told me to install JEdit, he said it is good editor for programming and entirely written in java. I am using ubuntu 9.04 and I can find the jedit any where for ubuntu. Even I have used the apt-get to install the JEdit but it says the package is not found. Does any one know how to install JEdit in ubuntu. Please I am trying to install it but it's just not working for me. Thanks in advance.

**chroma** · 24-11-2009

Hi
Yes JEdit is a great editor for programming. To install JEdit in your system follow the step below
1) Add the repository of JEdit to you etc/apt/sources.list file

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2) Add the following lines to the file

Code:

deb http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jedit ./
deb-src http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jedit ./

3) Save the file and close it.
4) Now you can install JEdit, update the apt-get and install JEdit

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jedit

This is how you can do it.

**Raine** · 24-11-2009

Hello
The above method is prefect to install the jedit in ubunut. But I am showing an alternate method. For this, you have to install the java virtual machine. There are many threads on how to install java virtual machine. Then you have to download the JEdit as a jar file. It is available on there official site. then just execute the following lines

Code:

java -jar jedit.jar

Then just follow the GUI installer instructions. They are simple.
the important things to remember are you have to download the jar file and you have to install java, i recommend to install java from SUN for compatibility and even java is open source now.

**Aidan 12** · 24-11-2009

Hi
Thanks for your reply
But I still have a problem to install JEdit, when I tyoe "sudo apt-get install jedit" then the following lines are displayed. But I can find JEdit anywhere installed.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
jedit is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Any suggestion or advice on this. By the way thanks again.