How do I setup editors on linux?

Question

I downloaded text editors (komodo, eclipse, sublime text, and medit). I opened the dash home but, they are in tar.gz format and are opening in archive managers as folders. How do I open them?

Thank you.

You need to install them. In this post you will find a great post with plenty documentation: http://askubuntu.com/q/25961/62483 — Lucio, Dec 22 '13 at 03:44
Medit is available from the Software Center. No need to download a tar.gz for medit. — , Dec 22 '13 at 04:13
Priority for installing software: distribution packages -> package repositories maintained by original application developers -> compiling from source — LiveWireBT, Dec 23 '13 at 08:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '13 at 03:43

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Can you use aptitude? Open up a terminal and type:

 sudo apt-get install eclipse

The .tar.gz files are source code. If you extract them, they will contain installation instructions.

answered Dec 22 '13 at 03:43

dejay

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He wants an editor not an IDE. – Jay Dec 22 '13 at 03:48
@Jay He said he wanted to install Eclipse... Is there an editor called Eclipse? – dejay Dec 22 '13 at 03:54
sorry for not specifying but eclipse is an IDE. Thanks for your help though. – Sam Dec 22 '13 at 04:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '13 at 03:48

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You will find a README or a INSTALL file in these folders with instructions on how to install. Most likely, they are 1. ./configure 2. make 3. make install . The easier option is to execute sudo apt-get install vim in the terminal.

answered Dec 22 '13 at 03:48

Jay

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