Komodo Edit is based on an award-winning Komodo IDE which offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, FTP upload/download support, syntax coloring and checking, Vi emulator and more.

It also support Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, plus JavaScript, CCS, HTML, XML, HTML-Smarty and Django scripting languages.

This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install it in Ubuntu 13.04 / 12.10 Raring Ringtail via PPA along with support for Ubuntu global menu.

To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to add the below PPA repository key.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A7E2BCD2

 

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Next, run the commands below to add the below PPA repository which contains Komodo Edit packages.

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mystic-mirage/komodo-edit/ubuntu quantal main"

 

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Finally, run the commands below to install Komodo Edit and support for Ubuntu Global Menu

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install komodo-edit komodo-edit-globalmenu

 

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Go to Ubuntu Dash and launch Komodo Edit.

 

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To completely remove or uninstall Komodo Edit, run the commands below.

sudo apt-get purge komodo-edit komodo-edit-globalmenu

 

Finally, go to System Settings’ –> Software & Updates –> Other Software’ tab

 

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Then select and remove the lines for Komodo Edit to remove its PPA repository from Ubuntu.

 

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You may do the same on the Authentication tab to remove the repository key.

 

Enjoy!