{"id":4630,"date":"2015-02-04T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:08:34","slug":"sigil-epub-editor-based-on-qt-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/sigil-epub-editor-based-on-qt-5-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigil Epub Editor Now Is Based on Qt 5.4.0+"},"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>Sigil, a free and open-source EPUB e-books editor, gets a big update recently by releasing version 0.8.3 and 0.8.4 one day after.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big changes is that now Qt 5.4.0 is the minimum required version for building Sigil. Since Qt 5.4.0 fixed the macdeployqt application and even integrated code signing, Mac OS X (>= 10.9.5) users no longer need to disable gatekeeper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sigil-qt-5.4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sigil-qt-5.4.jpg\" alt=\"sigil-qt-5.4\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sigil-qt-5.4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sigil-qt-5.4-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for Ubuntu, this may not be good news since <b>Ubuntu repositories still provide Qt 5.2 for 14.04<\/b> and Qt 5.3 for 14.10 (and 15.04). Users need to manually <a href=\"http:\/\/qt-project.org\/wiki\/Install_Qt_5_on_Ubuntu\" title=\"Install qt5 in ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\">download &#038; install Qt 5.4.0+<\/a> and compile Sigil from the source tarball.<\/p>\n<p>Sigil release notes, binary packages for Windows &#038; Mac, and source code are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-none\/Sigil\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">github.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu user, besides building the latest Sigil 0.8.4 source code as well as Qt 5.4.0 manually, the old 0.8.2 release can be easily installed from a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~i2p.packages\/+archive\/ubuntu\/i2p\" target=\"_blank\">third-party PPA<\/a> <i>(run below commands one by one or grab the .deb from link page)<\/i>.<\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigil, a free and open-source EPUB e-books editor, gets a big update recently by releasing version 0.8.3 and 0.8.4 one day after. One of the big changes is that now Qt 5.4.0 is the minimum required version for building Sigil. Since Qt 5.4.0 fixed the macdeployqt application and even integrated code signing, Mac OS X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1224,379],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-epub","tag-sigil-epub-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}