The latest Sweet Home 3D 4.4 was released on June 12, 2014 with many improvements and bug fixes. This quick tip will show you how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04 while Software Center has version 4.3.

First for detailed changes in Sweet Home 3D 4.4 read the release note.

1. The website provides Sweet Home 3D package for Linux bundled with Oracle Java JRE 1.6, download it from the link below:

SweetHome3D-4.4 32-bit SweetHome3D-4.4 64-bit

32-bit or 64-bit? Check it out by going to System Settings -> Details. Check out if there’s a new release at here.

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the below command and hit enter to extract the package to /opt/:

cd /opt/ && sudo tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/SweetHome3D-4.4-linux-*.tgz

In the command, you may replace SweetHome3D-4.4-linux-*.tgz with the exact package name.

3. Now you’re able to launch SweetHome3D via:

/opt/SweetHome3D-4.4/SweetHome3D

If everything goes OK. Let’s create a launcher for it so that you can start it from Unity Dash or Launcher.

In a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), run command:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sweethome3d-4.4.desktop

It will create a config file and open it with Gedit text editor.

Paste below content into the file and save it.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Sweet Home 3D 4.4
GenericName=Interior 2D design application with 3D preview
GenericName[de]=Innenraumplaner
Comment=Interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user with a 3D preview
Exec=/opt/SweetHome3D-4.4/SweetHome3D
Icon=sweethome3d
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=com-eteks-sweethome3d-SweetHome3D
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;3DGraphics;
Keywords=interior;design;2D;3D;home;house;furniture;java;

You may grab a logo icon from web. Name it sweethome3d.png and put it under /usr/share/icons/.

Once done, you’re able to open Sweet Home 3D 4.4 from Unity Dash result.

This tutorial is going to show you how to install latest Sweet Home 3D 4.1 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy & Linux Mint 16 Petra while the defaut version in Software Center is old.

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. Features include:

Install Sweet Home 3D 4.1:

The latest Sweet Home 3D is available in Getdeb repository for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint 13/15/16, Elementary OS.

1. To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

wget http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

2. For Linux Mint, there’s an option to enable it under ‘Software & Sources -> Additional repositories’.

3. Use synaptic package to update package lists and install the app. Or run below commands instead:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y sweethome3d

This tutorial shows how to install the latest Sweet Home 3D 4.1 in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Linux Mint 13 Maya, 15 Olivia via PPA.

Sweet Home 3D 4.1 was released with a few improvements and bug fixes. See changelog:

• Optimized Export to OBJ format feature for big exports.
• Moved the aerial view point of view closer to the first piece of furniture added to an empty home.
• Added support for full screen mode under Mac OS X.
• Fixed a printing bug that didn’t always show the expected pages.
• Updated the Online version to ensure it won’t display an additional security warning when run with latest Java version.
• Increased the default maximum memory used by the program to 640 MB, and made this size grow up to 1024 MB for Windows 32 bit installer version according to the available RAM in the system.
• Fixed a bug in Sweet Home 3D, the portable version of Sweet Home 3D (119 MB), the Furniture Library Editor (12,3 MB) and the Textures Library Editor (784 kB) that prevented the deletion of some temporary files under Windows at program end.
• Automatically deleted the private working folder of Sweet Home 3D at program end when it stops normally.
• Accepted absolute paths in com.eteks.sweethome3d.tools.temporarySubFolder system property to simplify the way to specify where the private working folder of Sweet Home 3D should be.
• Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.fixedPrintMargin system property to be able to force a print margin (expressed in centimeters) when customized margins entered in page format dialog box aren’t taken into account.
• Fixed a bug that kept displaying the available updates of a library even once it wasinstalled.
• Fixed an issue that prevented program launch when the name of imported libraries contained a very long string of digits.
• Updated Spanish help pages.
• Replaced JRE 6u43 by JRE 6u45 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

While the default version in Ubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 are 3.7 and 3.4, the latest now is available in GetDeb repository.

To add the repository, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

For Linux Mint users, see this post to enable getdeb repository.

After that, run commands to update and install Sweet Home 3D:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install sweethome3d

Enjoy!