Bibledit needs some libraries and tools which are not installed on most standard installations of Linux. Therefore you need to install these before installing Bibledit. In most cases it is sufficient to install a C++ compiler, the development packages of libgtk2, libsqlite3, libxml2, libpopt, and git-core, and all their dependencies. Then install Bibledit.
To help you with it, some example installations are given below.
Version 2.9+ on Fedora Core 7 and 8
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on CentOS 5.0
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on Fedora Core 7
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on OpenSuse 10.2
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on Ubuntu 7.04
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on Debian 4.0
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on Ubuntu 6.10
Version 2.5 - 2.7 on Ubuntu 6.06
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Xubuntu 6.10
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Fedora Core 6
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Ubuntu 6.10
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Suse 10.1
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Ubuntu 6.06
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Suse 10.0
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Debian 3.1
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Fedora Core 5
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Fedora Core 4
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Ubuntu 5.10
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on Knoppix 4.02
Packages for various flavours of Ubuntu, more or less up-to-date, are available at http://packages.sil.org.
Version 1.6 - 2.4 on OSX 10.3 and 10.4 PPC
Version 2.5+ on Mac OSX 10.4 Intel
Version 2.9+ on Mac OSX 10.4 Intel
At present a new Windows port is under construction.
The information about installing Bibledit on Windows are out of date and do not work.
I'd like to install it the simple way.
I'd like to take the difficult route.
There are some 3rd party programs that can work together with Bibledit.