Bluefish aims to be portable, that is, wherever GTK is ported. A comparatively small set of external libraries are necessary for it to work. Any recent GNU/Linux distribution or other *NIX with GTK2 installed should be sufficient. In addition to the list of requirements below, you may also want to look at Section 3, “System Specific Installation Issues”. Note: These requirements fit the GTK2-version. If you only have GTK1, you want the last GTK1-version, v0.7.

The main requirements:

Optional requirements:

Compiling Bluefish requires a few additional packages. (Remember that binary packages exists for many platforms. It is likely you won't need to compile ;-) ). Now, let's assume you want to compile, perhaps to get the latest and greatest from CVS. The requirements are as follows: