{"id":10125,"date":"2020-05-30T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10125"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:35:01","slug":"install-foliate-2-2-0-ppa-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/install-foliate-2-2-0-ppa-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Foliate eBook Reader 2.2.0 via PPA in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/foliateicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Modern GTK3 eBook reader Foliate 2.2.0 was released today with many great new features. Here&#8217;s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>\n<p>Foliate 2.2.0 is a new major release that features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New <b>library<\/b> tab:\n<ul>\n<li>showing recent books and reading progress.<\/li>\n<li>Search books by metadata<\/li>\n<li>E-book discovery with OPDS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\nNew eBook format support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FictionBook (.fb2, .fb2.zip)<\/li>\n<li>Comic book archive (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cb7)<\/li>\n<li>Plain text (.txt)<\/li>\n<li>Unpacked EPUB files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved layout, text-to-speech, image viewer, annotations.<\/li>\n<li>Important security fix. Recommend to &#8220;Allow Unsafe Content&#8221; for old version.<\/li>\n<li>Support for StarDict dictionaries.<\/li>\n<li>And many other features, see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/johnfactotum\/foliate\/releases\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foliate-220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foliate-220.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foliate-220-450x375.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Foliate 2.2.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The software is available to install either via <b>Snap<\/b> package (in Ubuntu Software) or <b>Flatpak<\/b> package, both run in sandbox.<\/p>\n<p>For those prefer Ubuntu <code>.deb<\/code> package, run following commands one by one to install it via the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~apandada1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/foliate\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1\/foliate<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foliate-ppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"133\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foliate-ppa.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/foliate-ppa-450x100.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Then refresh package cache and install the eBook reader:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install foliate<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/apt-foliate-600x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/apt-foliate-600x113.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/apt-foliate-450x85.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/apt-foliate.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NOTE if you&#8217;ve installed an old version via the <code>.deb<\/code> package downloaded from github release page, remove it first due to different package name by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove com.github.johnfactotum.foliate<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, open <i>Software &#038; Updates<\/i> utility and navigate to <i>Other Software<\/i> tab.<\/p>\n<p>To remove Foliate ebook reader, simply run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove foliate<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern GTK3 eBook reader Foliate 2.2.0 was released today with many great new features. Here&#8217;s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Foliate 2.2.0 is a new major release that features: New library tab: showing recent books and reading progress. Search books by metadata E-book discovery with OPDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1492],"class_list":["post-10125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-ebook-reader"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}