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I'm having trouble figuring out how to install BlueGriffon. All the other programs I've installed have been easily found in the Software Center or were a .deb that opened into the Software Center, but BlueGriffon's download is a .tar.bz2 and I tried to look for information on how to use that but it was all outdated and didn't help.

So if possible could anyone please just give me a walk-through on how to install this and get it running? Thank you for your time.

/edit: ran ls ~/Downloads/bluegriffon and this resulted:

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(Notice that I have assumed you saved your bluegriffon in your Downloads folder, so you should make the necessary changes otherwise. I also assumed you are using Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit)

Open a terminal and

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xjf bluegriffon-1.7.Ubuntu13.04-i686.tar.bz2

after that you can run BlueGriffon by typing (in a terminal):

~/Downloads/bluegriffon/bluegriffon

If you want to be able to see BlueGriffon in the Unity Dash (or GNOME Activies, etc) you should create a .desktop file, for example, using GEdit (Text Editor) type:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Blue Griffon
Comment=Web editor
TryExec=/home/your-username/Downloads/bluegriffon/bluegriffon
Exec=/home/your-username/Downloads/bluegriffon/bluegriffon %u
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/your-username/Downloads/bluegriffon/chrome/icons/default/default48.png

(Change your-username with your actual user name!) Save this file with the name BlueGriffon.desktop to the folder ~/.local/share/applications and that's it.

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  • Do I just paste in that first part right into the terminal or do I need to manually type it in? When I just pasted it in I got this 'tar (child): bluegriffon-1.7.Ubuntu13.04-i686.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory' Sorry I'm not getting it quite right when you took all the time to type this up for me ^^;; do you know what I am doing wrong here? (accidentally hit enter too soon so I had to edit..)
    – Danica N.
    Jun 6, 2013 at 3:53
  • It won't work unless you have saved the file in your Downloads folder. Try moving bluegriffon-1.7.Ubuntu13.04-i686.tar.bz2 to the Downloads folder and then you can just copy paste the code into a terminal.
    – edwin
    Jun 6, 2013 at 3:57
  • ah, okay, apparently I had downloaded the 64bit file instead of the 32bit file so the name was different and thus the code did not work correctly, I did it again and it seemed to work (didn't give me any error), but then when I did the second part to run it I'm gettting this ~/Downloads/bluegriffon/bluegriffon /home/danica/Downloads/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sorry for being so hard to help, thank you for your patience.
    – Danica N.
    Jun 6, 2013 at 4:08
  • Are you using Ubutun 13.04?? Or is it version 12.04?
    – edwin
    Jun 6, 2013 at 4:12
  • oh my, sorry I'd completely forgotten I should have included that. I'm using version 13.04.
    – Danica N.
    Jun 6, 2013 at 4:36

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