Run gedit on OSX Mavericks?

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The Version of Gedit on the gnome.org site does not seem to run on OSX Mavericks. Is there any way to fix this?

If you leave a close vote, please explain the purpose of the gedit tag for me. I want to understand the SO standards on this, not only for this question but future questions. — Jasper Blues, Oct 24 '13 at 13:37
I didn't vote to close, but _I_ feel this question is more suited for SuperUser. I would expect the tags you mentioned to be used if the asker was writing Gedit plugins, or OSX apps. — ataulm, Oct 29 '13 at 14:50
[TextWrangler](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textwrangler/id404010395?mt=12) is a good alternative. — theblang, May 19 '15 at 15:34
FYI the current beta version (3.13.91) runs fine on Yosemite, did not need additional packages. — austinmarton, Jun 04 '15 at 01:38
@austinmarton great news, but it's not the latest beta! (it's dated 2014-09-12). — Matteo, Jun 05 '15 at 01:10
Ah OK, I found it at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/gedit/beta/ so assumed it was — austinmarton, Jun 05 '15 at 03:25

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 11 '14 at 23:50

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When I tried it, the problem was the version of libxml2 packaged with gedit.

Use the command "brew install libxml2"

then cp /usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.1/lib/libxml2.2.dylib /Applications/gedit.app/Contents/Resources/lib/.

In the current version of brew, the directory has changed to 2.9.2 so: then cp /usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/lib/libxml2.2.dylib /Applications/gedit.app/Contents/Resources/lib/.

edited Nov 11 '14 at 23:50

Bob Gilmore

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answered Nov 26 '13 at 15:45

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to install xcode command line tools use xcode-select --install from terminal. then use ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" to install brew – aliasgar Feb 12 '14 at 12:07
As an update, the Homebrew link has changed, the new command is `ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"` – RogueBaneling Jan 03 '15 at 01:13

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '14 at 22:50

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Having MacPorts installed and comments from above I was able to simply rm /Applications/gedit.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2* and it used the system/macports library instead of the bundled one without error.

answered Jan 16 '14 at 22:50

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Fantastic. Works great. – Dondi Michael Stroma Jan 20 '14 at 01:40

Konstantinos Roditakis · Answer 3 · 2014-06-17T13:20:43.883

Just to Revise:

Having macports installed correctly. (If you just updated from e.g. OSX Lion you need to migrate macports to your new Maverics OSX System, https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration)
Downloading gedit-3.2.6-3
sudo port install libxml2
and rm /Applications/gedit.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2*
Open gedit and start Coding!

For my 13-inch, Early 2011 Macbook pro it worked just fine.

--

If you want to use gedit from Terminal:

add

alias gedit="open -a gedit"

to

~/.bash_profile

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '13 at 19:39

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Gedit 2.30.2 works. But your own plugin won't work on Gedit 2.30.2.

answered Oct 25 '13 at 19:39

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:07

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I dont know what your goal is, but i found a easier way with another program. If installing all of this starts to get tiersome (that's what i figured out at least, since xcode needed downloading and tampering), i found sublime text 2 to work very nicely.

answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:07

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Thanks, I'll give it a try. . For me gedit is quite a nice text editor. . Years ago it was by far my favorite on OSX, however there's now a lot of native options. . I tried Chocolat, and its very nice, although fairly expensive. – Jasper Blues Dec 06 '13 at 14:36
SublimeText is even more expensive than Chocolat (although it's my editor of choice.) A good free editor for Mac is TextWrangler. – Tobia Dec 22 '13 at 15:31

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 19 '14 at 21:04

I found that the version of "libxml2.2.dylib", distributed with Gedit 3.2.6 is outdated.

Install "Xcode" from the App Store (if you have not already done so), then:

$ cp -p /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib /Applications/gedit.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2.dylib

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 24 '13 at 07:17

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One solution (I'm still interested in others) is the following:

The latest version of Gedit (3.2.6-3)for OSX on the Gnome.org website crashes.
The older Gedit 2.30.2 still runs.

answered Oct 24 '13 at 07:17

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 02 '18 at 09:10

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try version 2.26.3 of Gedit – it’s working for me on MOJAVE ! http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/mac/gedit/2.26/ Darek

answered Nov 02 '18 at 09:10

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score -1 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 15:59

If I am guessing correctly, your aim is a GUI Text editor for convenience.

open /path/to/file

performs the same action as of double clicking on the file from Finder

Also if you want to use it with a specific application like sublime text

open -a 'Sublime Text' /path/to/file

Run gedit on OSX Mavericks?

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