{"id":5970,"date":"2016-06-21T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2016-06-21T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:14:17","slug":"sigil-0-9-6-ppa-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/sigil-0-9-6-ppa-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigil ePub Editor 0.9.6 Released, PPA for Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sigil-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sigil-icon.png\" alt=\"Sigil \" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5621\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sigil, an open-source and multi-platform ePub ebook editor, has reached the 0.9.6 release with some new features and various bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>New features added in Sigil 0.9.6:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>create sgc-nav.css stylesheet for nav and allow templates in Prefs Dir for user to control it<\/li>\n<li>add <i>General Setting<\/i> to allow user to set own temporary directory location<\/li>\n<li>add Qt Stylesheet support \u2013 Recognize and load \u201cqt_styles.qss\u201d file if stored in Sigil Preferences folder<\/li>\n<li>extend the plugin interface to add support for epub3 bindings elements<\/li>\n<li>add option + forward delete shortcut to active Metadata Editor remove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also brings a lot of bug-fixes in the release, see <a href=\"https:\/\/sigil-ebook.com\/\" title=\"sigil website\" target=\"_blank\">sigil website<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/epub096..jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/epub096.-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"sigil epub editor\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/epub096.-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/epub096.-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/epub096..jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How to install Sigil 0.9.6 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no official binary releases for Linux. While Ubuntu Software provides an old version, you may either build the latest release from source or use a third-party PPA.<\/p>\n<p>And here are my personal builds of Sigil 0.9.6, available for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 15.10:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntuhandbook1\/sigil\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/s\/sigil\/' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Download sigil-data and sigil (.deb)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download and install the <b>.deb<\/b> package for <b>sigil-data<\/b> and then <b>sigil<\/b> package (i386 for 32bit, amd64 for 64bit).<\/p>\n<p>For those who prefer adding PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/sigil\n\nsudo apt update\n\nsudo apt install sigil sigil-data<\/pre>\n<p>To manage PPAs, go to System Settings -> Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigil, an open-source and multi-platform ePub ebook editor, has reached the 0.9.6 release with some new features and various bug fixes. New features added in Sigil 0.9.6: create sgc-nav.css stylesheet for nav and allow templates in Prefs Dir for user to control it add General Setting to allow user to set own temporary directory location [&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":[379],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-sigil-epub-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","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=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}