Run gedit on OSX Mavericks?

Question

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

Answer 1

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/.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

I found that the version of "libxml2.2.dylib", distributed with Gedit 3.2.6 is outdated.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

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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