Installing gedit

I tried what you suggested and got unable to find package
on the gedit web site instructions say for debian 7 use what I already tried. Is it possible that gedit is not available at this time?
I am confused or lost or both.

packages.debian.org/wheezy/i386/gedit/download
packages.debian.org/wheezy/i386/gedit-plugins/download

go to directory they downloaded into and run

dpkg -i gedit*

or similar

You may need to install main gedit package first, then the plugins

ArcEye

Thanks for the time.

I downloaded the links you sent.
Went to the Downloads directory

did dpkg -i gedit*

and got multiple errors mostly about missing.gedit-commons and a lot of other stuff.

I could post it if that would be any help.

You should treat me like your normal idiot son. I have only been using linux for a compartitively short time and sometimes I get all lost and confused.

I still suspect I am doing something stupid,

ArcEye

follow up on previous post. The gedit program shows up in apps-accessories but does not function.

gedit-common is a dependency and is here

packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/gedit-common/download

I can't figure out why you cannot just install it normally with apt-get, it is in the main repo, which should be in your apt sources.list.

Anyway download and try installing gedit-common first, then gedit then gedit-plugins

ie
sudo dpkg -i gedit-common_3.4.2-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i gedit_3.4.2-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gedit-plugins_3.4.0-1_i386.deb


If that does not work, you really need to install synaptic, get your repo source stanzas sorted out and use that.
It will save you a lot of work.

ARcEye
now you are officially over my head.
1st what should be in my apt sources.list
2nd Is it possible my problems come from running the
deb buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy master-rt
deb-src buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ wheezy master-rt

no clue about synaptic...Will work on that.

Thanks anyway