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Official Bluefish releases and documentation

Note that there has been a different 2.2.16 tarball online for a day that introduced a compile error (see the bugreport). This has been fixed in the sourcecode that is available on the server now.

The latest stable version is Bluefish 2.2.16 which can be downloaded from our download server in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany:

Availability of binary packages might take a short while:

Alternatively some files are also available through Sourceforge:

Installers and packages

The Bluefish wiki has a page how to install Bluefish on various different operating systems and distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Mac OSX, AltLinux, OpenSolaris and Windows.

Install from source code

The 2.2.16 release requires gtk-2 (gtk 2.20 or newer) or gtk-3 (preferably 3.4 or newer) and optionally libenchant for spell checking, libgucharmap for the character map plugin, and python for the zencoding plugin and integrated tools like jsmin, and cssmin.

Check your download

If you want to make that the file you've downloaded is not corrupted check the SHA-1 checksums:

14e6476fcee8fa326f7f63f1f693d252195f9dcb16af0fe3c915c499baf5dd74  bluefish-2.2.16.tar.bz2
97ea1b836a1b30edfc31b63fb4142d7cfd906acf088d61eb4498936313c79f5a  bluefish-2.2.16.tar.gz

If you want to make sure that the file is guaranteed to be identical to the file released by the bluefish team, download the digital signature (the .sig file) and place it next to the source tarball, and check it with key B78DFBA1: 

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 64979277BAFF2D4CB637AC3B291C63A6B78DFBA1
gpg --verify bluefish-2.2.16.tar.bz2.sig
this should show 
gpg: assuming signed data in 'bluefish-2.2.16.tar.bz2'
gpg: Signature made zo 22 sep 2024 11:33:50 CEST
gpg:                using RSA key 64979277BAFF2D4CB637AC3B291C63A6B78DFBA1
gpg: Good signature from "Olivier Sessink "
Primary key fingerprint: 6497 9277 BAFF 2D4C B637  AC3B 291C 63A6 B78D FBA1

Source code in the version control system

Bluefish code is managed in Subversion. You can get the very latest code from the SourceForge.net SVN repository. Check the development page for instructions.

Contributed data

There are several different sets of contributed data. If you have anything please send it to the bluefish team!