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Installing jEdit

If you don't have a java runtime installed, start with Installing Java?.

You can download jEdit at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit regardless of your OS. System specific installers are available for different operation systems.

If you want to play it safe and have the most stable version, get the stable version 4.4.2.
If you're willing to risk a few glitches to try out and test the latest features, get the development version 4.5pre1.
If you either don't want to wait for the next dev build to be updated or you're just interested, you can also build j Edit from source.

Either download the Windows installer or the jEdit install jar. The system specific installer lets you install jEdit like any other Windows program, provided that you have Java installed (Installing Java?).

For the jEdit install jar: If double clicking on the jar does not start the installer, follow these steps:

Open 'My Computer' and go to Tools->Folder Options
go to the 'File Types' tab
Create or modify the entry for 'JAR' files to open with the javaw program in your $JAVA_HOME/bin directory
you should now be able to double click the install jar to install jEdit.

or follow the instructions on http://jedit.org/index.php?page=download&platform=windows#instructions

Mac classic

Mac support for java stopped with jdk 1.1.x, but current versions of jEdit only work with java 1.3.x and java 1.4.x. However, if you've just got to have jEdit on your old mac, you can use jEdit 3.2.2 which works with java 1.1.x.

Get java 1.1.8 for mac here: http://developer.apple.com/java/classic.html
Get jEdit 3.2.2 here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jedit/jedit322install.jar?download

Mac OS X

You can get java runtimes for Mac OS X here: http://developer.apple.com/java/index.html

You can either download and install with the Mac OS X package or the system independant jEdit install jar.

Linux

Use the JPackage RPM repository if you use the RPM Package Manager
- May have to install the java-1.4.2-sun-compat package, e.g. on Fedora Core 3 (see http://www.spindazzle.org/green/index.php?p=24)
Gentoo users can emerge jedit

Debian

You can either download the Debian package directly or

add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

then apt-get update followed by apt-get install jedit

Free BSD

jEdit is in the Ports tree under: /usr/ports/editors/jedit

The current development version of jEdit is in the Ports tree under: /usr/ports/editors/jedit-devel

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