Comments on: jEdit on Ubuntu http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:09:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Vincent http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/#comment-1766 Vincent Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:19:24 +0000 http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/#comment-1766 That's weird, it worked fine for me... That’s weird, it worked fine for me…

]]> By: Bas http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/#comment-1764 Bas Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:41:09 +0000 http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/#comment-1764 No, the Debian packages are in fact screwed. jEdit is much easier to maintain when installing locally. ;) If it would work globally, Ubuntu would have had jEdit in their repository. No, the Debian packages are in fact screwed. jEdit is much easier to maintain when installing locally. ;)
If it would work globally, Ubuntu would have had jEdit in their repository.

]]> By: Vincent http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/#comment-1763 Vincent Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:53:38 +0000 http://sparepencil.com/archives/2007/06/14/jedit-on-ubuntu/#comment-1763 Emm... The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=jedit&filename=jedit_4.3pre9_all.deb&use_mirror=heanet" rel="nofollow">Debian packages</a> they <a href="http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download" rel="nofollow">provide themselves</a> work very well... :S Installing from a packages should always be preferred, not just because it is a global install and automatically adds a menu entry, but more because this makes it easier to maintain the software you installed on your system. Plus, these are official (as in: from jEdit, not from Ubuntu) packages, not third-party. The boxes were unchecked by default for me, and checking them only had the effect that a bug that prevented me from properly opening the menus was fixed. Anyway, I'm now uninstalling jEdit again (via Synaptic ;) ) because I don't have this very modern computer like you do. Admittedly, jEdit itself might not run that terribly slow, but it causes everything else to run extremely slow, which is even worse. I'm sticking with <a href="http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/" rel="nofollow">Bluefish</a> :D (Wow, this would almost make a separate blog post :P ) Emm… The Debian packages they provide themselves work very well… :S
Installing from a packages should always be preferred, not just because it is a global install and automatically adds a menu entry, but more because this makes it easier to maintain the software you installed on your system. Plus, these are official (as in: from jEdit, not from Ubuntu) packages, not third-party.
The boxes were unchecked by default for me, and checking them only had the effect that a bug that prevented me from properly opening the menus was fixed.

Anyway, I’m now uninstalling jEdit again (via Synaptic ;) ) because I don’t have this very modern computer like you do. Admittedly, jEdit itself might not run that terribly slow, but it causes everything else to run extremely slow, which is even worse. I’m sticking with Bluefish :D
(Wow, this would almost make a separate blog post :P )

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