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What are the most available open source GUI hex-editor for the Ubuntu LTS 14.04 Desktop? I have HexEdit running on OS X, and am looking for something similar. A bit more modern perhaps, with good functionality, stability, easily installed and integrated. This is a system for a novice programming student learning Linux and examining code. how would you compare: Ghex, Bless, and wxHex? Any suggestion appreciated.

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Bless is a high quality full featured hex editor.

Bless currently provides the following features:

  • Efficient editing of large data files and block devices.
  • Multilevel undo - redo operations.
  • Customizable data views.
  • Fast data rendering on screen.
  • Multiple tabs.
  • Fast find and replace operations.
  • Advanced copy/paste capabilities.
  • Highlighting of selection pattern matches in the file.
  • Export to text and html (others with plugins).
  • Extensibility with Plugins.

You can compare hex editors here.

Installation:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and run:

sudo apt-get install bless

Alternatively click this link.

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fyi: this is a mono app and will pull all the mono runtime dependencies. – ccpizza Sep 25 '16 at 17:35
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@ccpizza what is the implication of this? – nutty about natty Feb 2 '17 at 15:46
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I have been using wxHexEditor - full featured / stable + source !

Handles HUGE files with ease

sudo apt-get install wxHexEditor

_ OR _

git clone https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor.git 
cd wxHexEditor
make -j8
sudo make install
wxHexEditor

Before compiling wxHexeditor you need wxWidgets and autoreconf on your system. On Ubuntu you can get those libraries like:

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev
sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf
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It looks like Ghex, and Bless are more available through the package add system, but I definitely want to give wxHex a try, it seems to get some pretty positive reviews. My next step should be to learn how to compile wxHex, and get it installed. Thanks for the tip! – Thompson Dawes Sep 21 '15 at 15:15

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