Hi
This is my first time using OpenSUSE (a whole 2 days so far). I have tried Ubuntu and Fedora 8 previously during the last few weeks but both have proved to be unsatisfactory for different reasons although Fedora 8 would have been fine if I could have acquired codecs for wmv and mp3.
I have installed OpenSUSE 11.1 and so far I am delighted by how easy it is even for a newbie like me.
The first snag: No problem getting mp3 player, movie player, Scribus, Gimp, etc installed and functioning via the package manager, BUT I can’t get Bluefish Code Editor onto my machine (an aging Toshiba lappy). Package manager doesn’t find it.
I need a good code editor to work on simple xhtml, css, php pages. I rarely do anything complex. I used Bluefish on both Fedora and Ubuntu without problems.
Can anyone assist with advice regarding a good, compatible, out of the box, code editor (preferably with code highlighting, indenting and hints) to suit my needs?
Else, how to install Bluefish?
I can’t understand how to use Vi/ViIM as yet and Emacs seems too much of a learning curve whilst I am learning to use a new OS plus trying to learn a few command lines in Konsole, plus actually achieve something.
A lot of editors are out there. A lot of people will response too to this thread with different ideas. I myself web developer.
Bluefish OR Quanta.
Both are very good editors with good features.
I personally use Quanta.
You can install both from Yast -> Software management.
Search for bluefish or quanta and install it from there.
I used Quanta for a few years. Just recently I switched to Gnome and didn’t want any contamination from KDE while I test Gnome for 6 months or so – so I’m using Bluefish now and it’s great. Use the educational repo as suggested by caf4926.
> The first snag: No problem getting mp3 player, movie player, Scribus,
> Gimp, etc installed and functioning via the package manager, BUT I can’t
> get Bluefish Code Editor onto my machine (an aging Toshiba lappy).
> Package manager doesn’t find it.
>
I did manage to get a base model Quanta to install, apparently I need some other “libraries” (whatever) to get full functionality. But it’s a great start.
I couldn’t add any repositories, Yast kept asking for a name (which I didn’t have) and also didn’t like the address format, I must’ve been doing something wrong, don’t forget that I’m an absolute newbie.
All the same it’s good to be on the road to freedom, even though I still have WinXP on my desktop. I have to reinstall XP very soon, if I can get openSUSE running well on the lappy I might install SUSE on the desktop too (sick to death of errors and re-installs).
I’ll probably be back here very soon when it comes time to to install XAMPP for Linux in a few days.
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>Thank you to one and all.
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>I did manage to get a base model Quanta to install, apparently I need
>some other “libraries” (whatever) to get full functionality. But it’s a
>great start.
>
>I couldn’t add any repositories, Yast kept asking for a name (which I
>didn’t have) and also didn’t like the address format, I must’ve been
>doing something wrong, don’t forget that I’m an absolute newbie.
>
>All the same it’s good to be on the road to freedom, even though I
>still have WinXP on my desktop. I have to reinstall XP very soon, if I
>can get openSUSE running well on the lappy I might install SUSE on the
>desktop too (sick to death of errors and re-installs).
>
>I’ll probably be back here very soon when it comes time to to install
>XAMPP for Linux in a few days.
>
>cha
>ta
>t3
When you select add repository, you can select community repositories.
Alternatively if it is a repository from outside the OpenSuse
community, you want to have a browser open to the repository site and
collect the URL and name from the browser using copy (control-c) and
paste (control-v).
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