Install Brackets Editor In Ubuntu, Mint and Other Linux Distributions

Brief: This quick tutorial shows you various ways of installing Bracket editor in Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions.

Brackets is one of the best open source code editors. It is developed by Adobe and is focused on web designers and front-end developers. Brackets is built in and for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this article, we shall see how to install Brackets in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and few other Linux distributions.

Since I am not a web developer, perhaps I may not do justice reviewing Brackets editor. However, if you are interested, you can read a fine review here. 

Method 1: Install Brackets using Snap

Starting Ubuntu 16.04, Bracket is available as Snap app. You can find it in Software Center and install it from there in a few clicks.

If you want to go the command line way, you can use the Snap commands to install Brackets. This will work for all the Linux distributions that support Snap packaging.

But first, make sure you have snapd daemon installed on your system. Use the command below to install it. Don’t worry if it is already installed. Just run the command below:

sudo apt-get install snapd

Once you have made sure that snapd is installed on your Linux system, install Brackets using the command below:

sudo snap install brackets

That’s it. 

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Method 2: Install Brackets using PPA in Ubuntu and Linux Mint (Not recommended) 

Note: This method is redundant now. When Brackets was not officially available, the unofficial PPA provided an easy way to install Brackets on Ubuntu.

Open a terminal and use the following commands to install Brackets via the unofficial PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install brackets

Method 3: Install Brackets using DEB package or source code

If you do not like PPAs, you can get the .deb installation files from the link below. You will also get the source code of the latest version there.

These .deb binaries can be installed by double-clicking on it. It will be opened in Ubuntu Software Center by default. You can use a lighter alternative Gdebi as well.

The same methods should also work in other Linux distributions based on Ubuntu such as Pinguy OS, LXLE, Elementary OS, Peppermint, Deepin, Linux Lite etc.

Remove Brackets

If you did not like Brackets, you can easily remove it.

If you installed it from DEB package or Software Center, you can remove it from there itself.

If you used snap command, you can use the command below to remove Brackets:

sudo snap remove brackets

If you used the PPA, you can remove it using the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove brackets

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:webupd8team/brackets

I hope this helped you to install Brackets in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. What do you think of Brackets? Is Brackets better than Atom text editor? Do share your views.