{"id":4322,"date":"2014-12-01T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2014-12-01T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T15:27:30","slug":"install-latest-sigil-epub-editor-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/install-latest-sigil-epub-editor-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install The Latest EPUB Editor in Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-icon1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-icon1.png\" alt=\"Sigil EPUB editor\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-icon1.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-icon1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sigil EPUB editor finally reaches 0.8.x release recently with new feature Plugin Support and various bug fixes. Here I&#8217;ll show you how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and their derivatives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-none\/Sigil\" title=\"Sigil project page on github.\" target=\"_blank\">Sigil<\/a> is an open-source editor for EPUB e-books, works in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It supports both WYSIWYG and code-based editing of EPUB files, as well as the import of HTML and plain text files.<\/p>\n<p>Sigil features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full UTF-16 and EPUB 2 specification support<\/li>\n<li>Multiple views: book, code and preview view<\/li>\n<li>WYSIWYG editing in book view<\/li>\n<li>Table of contents generator with multi-level heading support<\/li>\n<li>Metadata editor with full support for all metadata entries<\/li>\n<li>Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries<\/li>\n<li>Full regular expression (PCRE) support for find and replace<\/li>\n<li>Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,<\/li>\n<li>FlightCrew EPUB integration for EPUB compliance validator<\/li>\n<li>Integrated API to external HTML and graphics editors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"Sigil EPUB editor in Ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-code-view.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-code-view-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"Sigil EPUB Editor Code view\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-code-view-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-code-view-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sigil-epub-editor-code-view.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Sigil 0.8.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The developer does not provides the binary packages of Sigil ebook editor for Ubuntu Linux, but there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~i2p.packages\/+archive\/ubuntu\/i2p\" target=\"_blank\">third-party PPA<\/a> contains the latest builds (Sigil 0.8.2 so far) for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA and install Sigil, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:i2p.packages\/i2p\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install sigil<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/i2p.packages\/i2p\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/s\/sigil\/\" target=\"_blank\">the PPA page<\/a> and click to open it with Software Center and finally install the software.<\/p>\n<p>(Optional) To remove the PPA as well as sigil epub editor:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:i2p.packages\/i2p && sudo apt-get remove sigil<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigil EPUB editor finally reaches 0.8.x release recently with new feature Plugin Support and various bug fixes. Here I&#8217;ll show you how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and their derivatives. Sigil is an open-source editor for EPUB e-books, works in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. 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