can anyone suggest a good simple hex editor to use. im not looking for a lot of features, only that it has a (gnome based) gui and will compile wihtout too much trouble. i have only been able to find big complicated ones that wont compile easily, or ones that wont compile period.

please and thanks

(fedora core 4 for what its worth)

ghex? The Gnome hex editor? I wonder if it doesn't already come with your distro?

"can anyone suggest a good simple hex editor to use. im not looking for a lot of features, only that it has a (gnome based) gui and will compile wihtout too much trouble. i have only been able to find big complicated ones that wont compile easily, or ones that wont compile period."

I have used both the gnome based and KDE based hex editors. I am currently using khexedit which comes with the SuSE package kdeutils3-extra. I think that in Fedora khexedit comes in the kdeutils package. So you could probably get khexedit by installing the kdeutils rpm from your Fedora CD.

There are two gnome based GUI hex editors. My recollection of ghexedit is that it did not work. ghex is much simpler than either khexedit or ghexedit. I remember ghex as working but being too simple for my needs. You can get the current tarball for ghex here:

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sour...x-2.8.1.tar.gz

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Steve Stites

are there any other options ? where can ghexedit be found ?

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...s/Fedora/RPMS/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu....10-4.i386.rpm

It appears that Fedora has something called hexedit on the install CDs.

http://www.gnomefiles.org/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ghex/2.6/
http://ipi.fi/work/pablo/matt/downlo...ex/2.8.1/RPMS/

Google for it.