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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.

Scott Stensland
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Thompson Dawes
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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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Ravan
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I have been using wxHexEditor - full featured / stable + source !

Handles HUGE files with ease (only limited by your RAM)

sudo apt-get install wxhexeditor  #  then launch using  wxHexEditor

___ OR ___

git clone https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor.git 
cd wxHexEditor
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
wxHexEditor

Before compiling wxHexeditor you need wxWidgets and autoreconf on your system ... just install those libraries :

sudo apt-get build-dep  wxhexeditor

if make gives you this error

make: *** No rule to make target '-lgomp', needed by 'src/HexEditorGui.o'.  Stop.

then edit file Makefile and remove this line

LIBS += -lgomp

for details see https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor/issues/150

I then do

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/wxHexEditor /usr/local/bin/wxhexeditor

so I can launch it using lowercase wxhexeditor

Scott Stensland
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