Java 2 version 1.5 or later is recommended for all versions of jEdit. Before installing jEdit, make sure you have a compatible Java virtual machine; see the compatibility page for details.

Option 1 - manual download and install on any OS

Even if you're "just a user", you should still try the development version. There are many enhancements and bugfixes. Further, you will see more (and more recent versions of) plugins from 4.3preX's plugin manager.

Note: the above links are not to the files themselves, but rather to pages where you can select a download mirror. Do not use your browser's "Download Link" command on the above links.

Installation instructions are available for the following operating systems:

• Mac OS
• OS/2
• Unix
• VMS
• Windows

Option 2 - easy install on some flavors of *nix

• FreeBSD users can find install jEdit from the ports collection by running:

  cd /usr/ports/editors/jedit
  make install

• Gentoo Linux users can install jEdit from the portage tree by running emerge jedit.
• To install jEdit via Debian Linux apt-get, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

  deb http://<mirror>.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jedit /
  

  e. g.

  deb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jedit /
  

  Then, just run apt-get update, followed by apt-get install jedit.

• If you use apt4rpm, urpmi, or a similar tool with an RPM-based Linux distribution, you can automatically stay up to date with the latest version of jEdit using the JPackage RPM repository.

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