What is your favorite HexEditor? [closed]

What are the most available open source GUI hex-editor for the Ubuntu LTS 14.04 Desktop? I have HexEdit running on OS X, and am looking for something similar. A bit more modern perhaps, with good functionality, stability, easily installed and integrated. This is a system for a novice programming student learning Linux and examining code. how would you compare: Ghex, Bless, and wxHex? Any suggestion appreciated.

2 Answers

Bless is a high quality full featured hex editor.

Bless currently provides the following features:

• Efficient editing of large data files and block devices.
• Multilevel undo - redo operations.
• Customizable data views.
• Fast data rendering on screen.
• Multiple tabs.
• Fast find and replace operations.
• Advanced copy/paste capabilities.
• Highlighting of selection pattern matches in the file.
• Export to text and html (others with plugins).
• Extensibility with Plugins.

You can compare hex editors here.

Installation:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and run:

sudo apt-get install bless

Alternativelyclick this link.

I have been using wxHexEditor - full featured / stable + source !

Handles HUGE files with ease (only limited by your RAM)

sudo apt-get install wxhexeditor # then launch using wxHexEditor

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git clone
cd wxHexEditor
make -j8
sudo make install
wxHexEditor

Before compiling wxHexeditor you need wxWidgets and autoreconf on your system ... just install those libraries :

sudo apt-get build-dep wxhexeditor 

if make gives you this error

make: *** No rule to make target '-lgomp', needed by 'src/HexEditorGui.o'. Stop.

then edit file Makefile and remove this line

LIBS += -lgomp

for details see

I then do ln -s /usr/bin/wxHexEditor ~/bin/wxhexeditor so I can launch it using lowercase