In the next article we are going to take a look at Komodo Edit. This is a code editor open for Gnu / Linux. It is a mainly useful tool for software developers. The text editor in question was developed by the ActiveState software company in 2007 and released under the Mozilla Public License.
Komodo IDE has an open source counterpart called Komodo Edit. They both share much of the same code base, but the Komodo IDE contains the most advanced IDE features, such as debugging, unit testing, etc. Both Komodo Edit and IDE support user customization through plugins and macros. Komodo plugins are based on Mozilla plugins and extensions can be searched, downloaded, configured, installed and updated from within the application. The Extensions Available include a Document Object Model (DOM) inspector, pipeline features, additional language support, and user interface enhancements.
General features of Komodo Edit
Now let's take a look at the features of the Komodo editing free text editor:
- Komodo Edit is an excellent code editor similar (not the same) to Notepad ++ found in Windows and other operating systems.
- We will find this program available for Mac, Windows and Gnu / Linux.
- We can use this application to program using multiple programming languages, like PHP, CSS, Ruby, HTML, SQL, XML, and many more.
- Supports the fautomatic code completion and syntax highlighting.
- We will have the possibility to obtain a preview of the web page that we are designing.
- It is available for operating systems of 32 bit and 64 bit.
- The free text editor Komodo supports macros.
- We can download the source code of this application from your github page.
Install Komodo Edit on Ubuntu 16.04
This fantastic editor can be installed easily. You just have to follow the steps detailed below to get it, both in version 11 and version 10. The version that we can install using the official PPA is not the latest, that is why I have decided to also show the installation of version 11.
Komodo Edit 11
If we want to have the latest version, we will have to go to the download page that we will find on your website. On that website, we will download the .tar.gz package and once saved we will unzip it. Inside the folder that we are going to obtain, we will find the install.sh file. By launching this file, we will begin the installation of this latest version. To do so, we will only have to go to the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T), go to the folder where this file is located and execute:
sudo ./install.sh
As you can see in the previous screenshot, the program will ask us for a installation directory. For this example I have located the installation in / opt / komodo-edit-11 /.
Now we can launch our newly installed program by looking for it on our computer.
Komodo Edit 10 from PPA
Before starting the installation of the free text editor Komodo 10, we have to add the official PPA as it is not part of the default Ubuntu 16.04 repository. So, to install the PPA, we will have to type in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mystic-mirage/komodo-edit
Once added to our system, we will have to update packages and repositories from Ubuntu 16.04 using the following command to take effect:
sudo apt-get update
Now we are ready to install the Komodo Editor app. So in the same terminal we will write the following command:
sudo apt-get install komodo-edit
After the installation, to open the application we will simply have to write the command komodo-edit at the shell prompt. We will also be able to open the Komodo application graphically using the Search box on your computer.
uninstall
Remove Komodo Edit 11
To uninstall this version of Komodo from our operating system, follow these simple steps:
- Delete the directory that Komodo created during installation. In my case it is the directory that I created in / opt /.
- If we want to delete our Komodo preferences as well, we will have to remove ~ / .komodo directory. If we don't remove this directory, subsequent Komodo installations will use the same preferences.
Remove Komodo Edit 10
To uninstall the Komodo 10 editing free text editor, use the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):
sudo dpkg -r komodo-edit
This is how we can install either of these two versions of the free text editor Komodo in Ubuntu 16.04.