Kompozer not in the repo?

Question

Why is Kompozer no longer in the repositories? Can any one suggest a new alternative (other than BlueFish) ?

Solution 1

Kompozer was removed from the repository as it is no longer being maintained by its maintainer in the upstream(Debian). References:

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690251
• http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kompozer.html

As for your second question, a suitable alternative for it would be Bluegriffon.

This is what it looks like:

To install it do the following steps:

1. Download the installer.
2. Right click on the Installer file. Pick the "Permissions" tab and check the Allow executing file as program checkbox. (For security reasons, most files aren't executable by default.)
3. Double-click on the installer file, and the GUI to install BlueGriffon will start.

About Bluegriffon, from its website:

BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards.

Partially reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/136849/11932

The latest bluegriffon can also be installed from the getdeb repository, by doing the following steps:

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bluegriffon

Courtesy: http://www.sourceslist.eu/software-tramite-repository/how-to-install-bluegriffon-editor-wysiwyg-on-ubuntu-12-04-from-ppa/

Solution 2

Kompozer packages are removed from Quantal version but still you can download install the binaries or from source.

Here is the binaries/source link

Make sure you install the dependencies before installing the Kompozer .deb file

Other Alternative for Kompozer is aptana-studio but you cannot find this package in ubuntu repository. You need to download them from official website

Solution 3

The KompoZer packages have been removed due to lack of maintenance (the packages can not be built from source with the 12.10 tool chain).

I suggest Amaya and the NVU/KompoZer fork Bluegriffon. Unfortunately, neither is in the repositories.

Comments

[Anwar]

Related: askubuntu.com/questions/204704/…

[saji89]

@A.S. I had asked that question just to know the reason for it. :)

[Lasher]

I searched before asking but found no thing.

[Kevin Bowen]

The links provided for launchpadlibrarian.com are dead/giving 404 errors

[Keivan]

@maggotbrain, Sorry, I copied the answer from the reference mentioned. It worked at the time!

[Keivan]

@maggotbrain, here is another solution that works, so far: wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kompozer/ko‌​mpozer_0.8~b3.dfsg.1‌​-0.1ubuntu2_amd64.de‌​b http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/k/kompozer/ko‌​mpozer-data_0.8~b3.d‌​fsg.1-0.1ubuntu2_all‌​.deb

[Kevin Bowen]

Add that as an answer please, or edit yours.