Compile FeatherPad text editor on Fedora

FetherPad

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has:

Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment;
X11 virtual desktop awareness (using tabs on current desktop but opening a new window on another);
An optionally permanent search-bar with a different search entry for each tab;
Instant highlighting of found matches when searching;
A docked window for text replacement;
Support for showing line numbers and jumping to a specific line;
Automatic detection of text encoding as far as possible and optional saving with encoding;
Syntax highlighting for common programming languages;
Session management;
Side-pane mode;
Auto-saving;
Printing;
Text zooming;
Appropriate but non-interrupting prompts; and
Other features that can be found in its settings, on its menus or when it is actually used.

You can download the source code for FeatherPad from github.

$ git clone https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad

To compile the source code you’ve just got from github, you will have to install following dependencies.

To install these dependencies.

$ sudo dnf install gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXext-devel qt5-qtbase-devel\
  qt5-qtx11extras-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel qt5-qttools-devel

Once the dependencies are installed, the next process is really simple. Go to the FeatherPad directory.

$ cd FeatherPad

Generate the makefile.

$ qmake-qt5

Compile the source code using make.

$ make

This will generate the executable for Featherpad.

To run FeatherPad.

$ cd featherpad
$ ./fetherpad

you can install Featherpad you’ve just compiled from the source by using

$ sudo make install