{"id":6349,"date":"2016-10-31T02:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2016-10-31T02:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:14:02","slug":"sigil-epub-0-9-7-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/sigil-epub-0-9-7-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigil EPUB Ebook Editor Updated to 0.9.7 [Ubuntu PPA]"},"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 ebook editor, has reached the 0.9.7 release a day ago with some new features and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Sigil 0.9.7 is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. It features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extend validation plugin interface with add_extended_result() method to allow better cursor positioning<\/li>\n<li>Extend TextTab and Tabs derived by it to position cursor based on offset<\/li>\n<li>Allow editing of page-map.xml files, xpgt files and other misc xml based files inside Sigil<\/li>\n<li>Remove support for python2.7 only plugins and simply Manage Plugins settings<\/li>\n<li>Update Windows and OS X builds to use Python 3.5.2<\/li>\n<li>Update jquery to 2.2.4 and jquery.scrollTo to 2.1.2<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade to double sized 48&#215;48 pixel icons for High DPI displays<\/li>\n<li>And various fixes. See <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Sigil-Ebook\/Sigil\/releases\/tag\/0.9.7\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-editor-097.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-editor-097-600x424.jpg\" alt=\"sigil-editor-097\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-editor-097-600x424.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-editor-097-450x318.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-editor-097.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to install Sigil 0.9.7 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and their derivatives, you can install \/ upgrade Sigil using this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/sigil\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/sigil<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-ppa-600x96.jpg\" alt=\"sigil-ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-ppa-600x96.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-ppa-450x72.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sigil-ppa.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> To upgrade from a previous release, just launch Software Updater and install the updates after checking for updates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor-600x386.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade-sigil-epub-editor\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor-450x289.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or install \/ upgrade Sigil via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install sigil flightcrew<\/pre>\n<p><b>(Optional)<\/b> To uninstall Sigil 0.9.7 and downgrade to the original version in Ubuntu official repositories, simply run command to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/sigil<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigil, an open-source and multi-platform ebook editor, has reached the 0.9.7 release a day ago with some new features and various bug-fixes. Sigil 0.9.7 is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. It features: Extend validation plugin interface with add_extended_result() method to allow better cursor positioning Extend TextTab [&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":[1388,379],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ebook","tag-sigil-epub-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","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=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}