Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, BlueGriffon is an open-source WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor, based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, allowing the users to easily edit web pages, via an intuitive user interface.
The users can edit webpages in either the wysiwyg mode (in the graphical mode) and in the source mode where the html codes are displayed.
The latest version available is BlueGriffon 1.7.2, available in the below languages: English, Dutch, Finnish, French, Czech, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese.
In this article I will show you how to install BlueGriffon 1.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Pinguy OS 12.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is available via the GetDeb repository, installing BlueGriffon 1.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives is easy. All you have to do is add the repository to your system, download and import the repository’s key, update the local repository index and install the bluegriffon package.
Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install BlueGriffon 1.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bluegriffon
Optional, to remove bluegriffon, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove bluegriffon
How to install BlueGriffon 1.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bluegriffon
Optional, to remove bluegriffon, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove bluegriffon