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Linux Development for Contributors
Brackets officially supports Mac and Windows. However, we're working on adding Linux support with the help of our open source community. If you're an end user that just wants to try out Brackets on Linux, please be aware that many features are missing or partially implemented.
To be clear, if you are NOT an extension developer and NOT planning to contribute to brackets-shell, please visit (TBD landing page) to download an experimental build of Brackets. Please review the release notes for known issues.
These instructions will download the Git repositories for brackets-shell and brackets, download required dependencies, compile the native shell, stage all the runtime files, then run Brackets.
- Create a top level folder to contain the Brackets git repositories
- In a terminal window,
cdto the folder from the previous step and run the following command
wget -O - https://gist.github.com/jasonsanjose/5514813/raw/d4ed00adfaf5613a629e97a4f9123532e9938928/setup.sh | bash- Respond to
sudopassword prompts when requested - When complete, Brackets will launch from
/path/to/brackets-shell/installer/linux/staging/Bracketswithwwwsource (brackets/src) copied to/path/to/brackets-shell/installer/linux/staging/www - To setup for Brackets development, we would normally use
/path/to/brackets/tools/setup_for_hacking.shto redirect the Brackets binary at the brackets git repository. There's still some open issues there, so instead, just manually run the following
ln -s /path/to/brackets /path/to/brackets-shell/installer/linux/staging/dev- Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit
- Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit (manually replace brackets-shell/deps/cef/Release/libcef.so with the 64-bit binary from http://www.magpcss.net/cef_downloads/)
There are several user stories (feature work) to complete in brackets-shell before the Linux version reaches feature parity with Mac and Windows. These stories are listed below in priority order
| User Story | Status | Affected Features | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update CEF | In Progress | Everything | Jason San Jose |
| Node Integration | Not Started | Live Preview HTML Highlighting, Extension Manager Install/Update/Remove | Joel Brandt |
| Ubuntu Installer/Packaging | Not Started | Install experience | |
| Native Menus | Not Started | Menus (HTML menus are an interim, but completely functional substitute) | |
| File API - delete, rename | Not Started | Project tree and File menu delete and rename commands | |
| Show in OS | Not Started | Project tree command to show the selected file in the native OS file viewer | |
| Automated Builds | Not Started | Jason San Jose |