How to install Haroopad in Fedora

How to install Haroopad in Fedora
In this post I'm going to show you how to install Haroopad markdown text editor in Fedora Linux.

What is Haroopad?

Haroopad is a text editor which let you write markdown file dynamicalsly. You will be editing the markdown file in the left columna and see the HTML result in the right one.

Installation on Fedora

  1. Download the tarball from the official website: Haroopad Download
  2. Run the following commands: 
    $ tar -zxvf haroopad-vx.x.x_amd64.tar
    $ tar -zxvf data.tar.gz
    $ sudo cp -r ./usr /
    $ tar zxf control.tar.gz
    $ chmod 755 postinst
    $ sudo ./postinst
  3. Check the ".desktop" file : 
    $ sudo vi /usr/share/applications/Haroopad.desktop

    should be something like this: 
    [Desktop Entry]
Name=haroopad
Version=0.13.1
Exec=haroopad
Comment=The Next Document processor based on Markdown
Icon=haroopad
Type=Application
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Development;GTK;GNOME;
  4. Copy Hroopad icons with: 
    $ sudo cp -rf usr/share/icons/hicolor/ /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Now you can use Haroopad.

Vi commands in Haroopad

If you use Vim a lot them you might like that Haroopad has a Vim Mode, to activate it check it in the 'View' menu, or you if want to use as default mode, then select the option 'Vim Key Bindings' in 'File->Preferences->Editor' menu. 

 

    Danilo