Geany is a free and open source lightweight IDE for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is a small and fast code editor for programmer. It comes with auto completion, color themes, project management, code navigation, code folding, syntax highlighting and many more. It supports C, Java, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Python, Perl, C++, C#, Go, Haskell, JSON, kotlin, Rus, Sccla, SQL, TypeScript and many more. It is released under GNU General Public License Version 2. You can also extend its features using plugins.
How to Install Geany on Ubuntu Linux
You can install Geany via apt and flatpak from flathub. Open the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and run below commands to install the latest version of Geany IDE on your system.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y geany
geany
Install Geany via Flatpak:
First install the latest version of flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it. After the installation run below Geany flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub org.geany.Geany
You can open Geany using this command.
flatpak run org.geany.Geany
You can uninstall Geany IDE using this command.
sudo flatpak uninstall org.geany.Geany
That’s all.