How To Install Geany 1.23 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, 10.04 And Linux Mint 15, 14, 13

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The latest installation instructions for Geany

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Geany is a small and lightweight IDE, independent from the desktop environments, so it only needs the GTK2 libraries, as dependencies, to run. The latest version available is Geany 1.23. For more information, see this page.

In this article I will show you how to install Geany 1.23 on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Linux Mint 14 Nadia and Linux Mint 13 Maya.

Geany 1.23 is available in the default repositories on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and Linux Mint 16 Petra, so just open a terminal and type:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install geany

To install Geany 1.23 on Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/10.04 and Linux Mint 15/14/13, you have to add the Geany development PPA, like this:

Add the PPA:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geany-dev/ppa

Update the local repositories:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Geany:

$ sudo apt-get install geany