{"id":1191,"date":"2013-08-02T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2014-12-01T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:22:15","slug":"sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Sigil Epub Editor For Ubuntu via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows you <b>how to install Sigil WYSIWYG epub editor on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.04 Precise via Sigil PPA repository.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"sigil epub editor for ubuntu\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sigil<\/b> is a free and open-source <i>EPUB ebook editor<\/i>. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac with full EPUB 2 spec and UTF-16 support. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View<\/li>\n<li>WYSIWYG editing in Book View<\/li>\n<li>Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View<\/li>\n<li>Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support<\/li>\n<li>Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each<\/li>\n<li>User interface translated into many languages<\/li>\n<li>Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries<\/li>\n<li>Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find &#038; Replace<\/li>\n<li>Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,<\/li>\n<li>Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator<\/li>\n<li>Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Install Sigil Epub Editor:<\/h3>\n<p>There is only a personal <i>Sigil PPA<\/i> for Ubuntu users. Now supports Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04. <del>Supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10.<\/del> Use it at your own risk!<\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the ppa:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab\/sigil-release<\/pre>\n<p><del><b>For Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04<\/b>, you&#8217;ll need the Ubuntu SDK PPA:<\/del><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\"><del>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team\/ppa<\/del><\/pre>\n<p>After adding the ppa repository, you&#8217;re able to install the editor via below commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install sigil<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-unity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-unity.jpg\" alt=\"sigil epub editor for ubunt unity\" width=\"363\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-unity.jpg 363w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sigil-epub-editor-for-ubuntu-unity-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows you how to install Sigil WYSIWYG epub editor on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.04 Precise via Sigil PPA repository. Sigil is a free and open-source EPUB ebook editor. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac with full EPUB 2 spec and UTF-16 support. Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View [&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],"tags":[378,379,17,15],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-epub-editor-for-ubuntu","tag-sigil-epub-editor","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","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=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}