jEdit 4.3 quick installation howto for Ubuntu (or other gnome desktops)
- make sure you have JRE on your machine, or better yet the latest Java SDK
- download the jEdit installer from http://www.jedit.org/. get the lastest stable version or if you are the tester type, get the development version
- run java -jar jEditxxx.jar
- choose the destination folder
To add jEdit on the menu system of gnome
- in /usr/share/application folder, create a file named jEdit.desktop
- add the following lines on the file
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/home/folder/jedit/jedit
Icon= [removed, since no icon is available]
Terminal=False
Name=jEdit
Comment=jEdit
Categories=Application;Office;
More Notes:
Exec; this is the application to run
Categories; the group where the application is added
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