How to install Brackets on Lubuntu 16.04

Brackets (brackets.io) is another text editor for web developer which totally free to use and open source. Brackets is available on windows, macOS and linux. In this article i will show you how to properly install brackets text editor on lubuntu 16.04.

Note that the version of brackets that i'm going to install is version 1.10, up to this version brackets for linux requires a library called libgcrypt11 and the problem with that is on lubuntu/ubuntu 16.04 the version of libgcrypt is too advanced which is libgcrypt20.

The solution is to download libgcrypt11 from launchpad and then install manually and then finally install brackets itself. Here's step by step how to install brackets text editor on lubuntu 16.04:

Step by step how to install Brackets on Lubuntu 16.04

• download libgcrypt11 from launchpad
• install libgcrypt11 with this command

sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.5.3-2ubuntu4.2_amd64.deb

• download brackets from the official website
• install brackets with this command

sudo dpkg -i Brackets.Release.1.10.64-bit.deb

• open brackets from lubuntu start menu > Programming > Brackets.
• enjoy using brackets on lubuntu!