Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor for Linux, Windows, and Mac. It’s based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. It provides dynamic language expertise for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML, and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django.
Install Komodo Edit in Ubuntu from PPA:
Komodo Edit gets a PPA on launchpad.net. So far, it provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and 12.04 Precise. To install it, hit Ctrl+Alt+T, copy and paste following commands into terminal and run one by one.
Add the ppa to repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mystic-mirage/komodo-edit
Update:
sudo apt-get update
Install Komodo Edit from the repository:
sudo apt-get install komodo-edit
To install Global Menu integration with Unity, run command:
sudo apt-get install komodo-edit-globalmenu
Once installed, you can open Komodo Edit from the Unity Dash Home. Or in file Properties window Open With tab, choose Komodo Edit and set as default.
Enjoy!








Thanks. Nice quick tutorial. I find myself installing programs from the command line more and more these days. Software center is too bloated, and runs slow. Can’t beat the simplicity and power of the terminal.
Simple, clean & quick ! Good job done
thank’s bro
Thanks, very very useful for beginers like me !
Somehow possible to activate the GlobalMenu Plugin for Ubuntu from the start on?
http://community.activestate.com/node/9281
But be enhance the Komodo Ubuntu experience
Thanks dude! But now it contains Komodo Edit 8 and GlobalMenu plugin in the ppa. So after adding the ppa and update, just run :
It installs Komodo Edit 8 with global menu supported. If you’re running Ubuntu 13.04, go to the PPA Download Page to get the DEBs.