How to Install the Latest Nano Editor From Source on SLES-SLED 12.x Easy Guide

Installing nano Editor for SLES/SLED 12.x

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install and Getting-Started with the Latest GNU nano Editor on SUSE SLES/SLED 12.x Linux Server/Desktop.

And GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

1. Open a Command Line Shell Session.

2. Installing Required Packages

   sudo zypper in gcc groff-full ncurses-devel

3. Download the Latest nano Source

   nano tar.gz Archive

   nano Source Release

   Tested with nano 2.x. But it should Works also for the Newer Releases…

4. Extracting nano Archive.

   tar xvzf nano*.tar.gz

   rm nano*.tar.gz

5. Installing nano Editor.

   cd nano*

   ./configure

   make

   sudo make install