How To Install Gedit

  1. How To Install Gedit On Linux
  2. How To Install Gedit On Raspberry Pi

GEdit is a Linux text editor commonly deployed as part of the GNOME desktop environment. Most Linux guides and tutorials will get you to use the nano editor or vi to edit text files and configuration files and the reason for this is that nano and vi are almost guaranteed to be installed as part of the Linux operating system. Open gedit, and enable the plugin like in this image: Finally restart gedit, and you are done. Finally, if you want your plugin system available, instead of installing it in ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/ do it in /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/.


When you try to edit a file with your (our) favorite text editor gedit, and you get “command not found”. You may be better off using gvim or leafpad but when it comes to breaking the habit of using gedit, you would have a second thought of installing gedit by hook or crook. Just as in backtrack, Off you go, and try
$apt-get install gedit
you get

How To Install Gedit On Linux

Unable to locate package gedit
Time of action
update the Kali repository packages using following commands
$ apt-get update
In the terminal run the command
replace (or make sure) the contents of sources.listHow is as below
Save the changes to the sources.list and run apt-get update to update the package repositories.

How To Install Gedit On Raspberry Pi

Again update the kali using same command :
$apt-get update
That’s it, once the apt-get repository is updates, you can run
That's it