What is your favorite HexEditor?

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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.

score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 21 '15 at 20:04

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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

Alternatively click this link.

edited Sep 21 '15 at 20:04

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answered Sep 21 '15 at 03:37

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fyi: this is a ***mono app*** and will pull all the mono runtime dependencies. – ccpizza Sep 25 '16 at 17:35
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@ccpizza what is the implication of this? – nutty about natty Feb 02 '17 at 15:46
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@nuttyaboutnatty it means you'll have to download the full Mono framework and all its dependencies (probably a few hundred MB) just to run that software. Hidden message is "probably not worth it" ;) – Matthieu Mar 26 '18 at 11:25
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Bless constantly crashed on me. Was not impressed at all, and felt limited. – Anon Oct 17 '18 at 01:36
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It kept on crashing till i removed it. – Ravi Ranjan Oct 31 '18 at 12:13
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Bless does not work with device blocks. – netrox Nov 29 '18 at 21:03
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omg... I ran this app twice and it crashed... twice... uninstalled it asap :( – Mladen B. May 23 '19 at 19:05

Scott Stensland · Answer 2 · 2022-07-02T10:30:09.807

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 https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor.git 
cd wxHexEditor
make -j$(nproc)
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 https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor/issues/150

I then do

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/wxHexEditor /usr/local/bin/wxhexeditor

so I can launch it using lowercase wxhexeditor

It looks like Ghex, and Bless are more available through the package add system, but I definitely want to give wxHex a try, it seems to get some pretty positive reviews. My next step should be to learn how to compile wxHex, and get it installed. Thanks for the tip! — Thompson Dawes, Sep 21 '15 at 15:15

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