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From where I will get gedit latest version? Current I have 3.10.4 installed on my Ubuntu version 14.10. Do we have any ppa available to download latest gedit?

snoop
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Try this:

1.sudo apt-add-repository ppa:suraia/ppa then

2.sudo apt-get update then

3.sudo apt-get remove gedit && sudo apt-get install gedit then

4.sudo apt-add-repository -r ppa:suraia/ppathen REBOOT and

5.gedit -V you should see the version of gedit.

idk if it really helps but try

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  • Why reboot? You're just reinstalling an application. Also, please note that this will install gedit from a completely untrusted, random PPA off the Internet. – pzkpfw Dec 30 '14 at 08:48
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    Tried to add the ppa but got error saying that: Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~suraia/ubuntu/ppa'. The user named '~suraia' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/ppa' Please choose from the following available PPAs: * 'server': Server – snoop Dec 30 '14 at 08:49
  • For suraia ppa, you have to write ppa:suraia/server and not ppa:suraia/ppa. Yet, it seems that he has removed gedit packages from his ppa. – 1111161171159459134 Sep 16 '15 at 03:24
  • gedit 3.14.3 is now available in ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 for vivid vervet. I already had GNOME3 installed from the main Ubuntu repositories. When I added the PPA, I found it didn't make that many changes to my system (just 18 new packages). – z0r Oct 22 '15 at 22:58
  • Well I tried all the repositories listed here in answer and comments, but I always get gedit 3.10.4 version only even after upgrade, my Ubuntu version is 14.04 Trusty Tahr, I really need a 3-4 step procedure to upgrade my Gedit to 3.14.3 or later without breaking gedit plugins like external tools which are listed in tools menu, just simple as adding repo, apt update and then install, but I can't find one procedure like that. Please help anyone. – Vicky Dev Apr 28 '16 at 18:16
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If the version you want is not in the official PPAs (for 14.04 LTS it looks like it's currently gedit (3.10.4-0ubuntu4)) there can be good reasons for this, mainly that newer versions are not tested, not considered stable, et cetera.

If you really want to try newer versions of software, you can usually get newer versions directly from the respective web pages of the applications themselves. Googling for gedits website showed that they do have a library of source packages:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/

The bleeding edge seems to be 3.14.2 (as you request) and it was put up on Dec 4th. No wonder it's not in the PPAs! Download gedit-3.14.2.tar.xz and install the application from source.

Good luck!

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pzkpfw
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This worked for me:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get remove gedit libgtksourceview-3.0-common
sudo apt-get install gedit=3.4.1-0ubuntu1 gedit-common=3.4.1-0ubuntu1 \
     libgtksourceview-3.0-0 libgtksourceview-3.0-common=3.4.1-0ubuntu1 \
     gir1.2-gtksource-3.0=3.4.1-0ubuntu1

That installed the latest version of gedit as of this comment.

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