{"id":7982,"date":"2018-07-25T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:04:43","slug":"sigil-0-9-10-released-install-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/sigil-0-9-10-released-install-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigil 0.9.10 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sigil-icon.png\" alt=\"Sigil\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5621\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sigil epub ebook editor 0.9.10 was released earlier today with new features and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the changelog.txt, Sigil 0.9.10 adds following new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>allow plugins to supply their own icon (plugin.png 48&#215;48) for use on the Quick Launch Toolbar icons<\/li>\n<li>extend plugin interface to include the status of the epub inside Sigil (modified or saved)<\/li>\n<li>extend plugin interface to include the path to the saved epub file or the null string if never saved<\/li>\n<li>extend Insert->Special Characters to include both a Greek letter panel and a mathematical symbol panel<\/li>\n<li>add support for calibre:series and calibre:series_index to Metadata Editor for epub2<\/li>\n<li>add support for calibre:title_sort to Metadata Editor for epub2<\/li>\n<li>add support for clicking internal links in Preview to load the proper destination tab<\/li>\n<li>add support for loading Qt&#8217;s base translation files if present. Allows buttons on native qt dialogs to be translated (Windows users may need to manually copy newer qtbase_xx.qm files to Sigil&#8217;s translation directory if they didn&#8217;t exist in Qt5.6.2)<\/li>\n<li>allow user to add custom css rules to Preview\/Book View by creating a file called &#8220;custom_preview_style.css&#8221; in the Sigil preferences folder (not responsible for custom css and ebook css fighting with each other)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also various bugs fixed in the release, see changelog file for details in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Sigil-Ebook\/Sigil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigil github<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Sigil 0.9.10 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">UPDATE: The PPA is no longer updated! For the most recent packages, <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/install-sigil-ebook-editor-ubuntu-20-04\/\" rel=\"noopener\">see here instead<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The new release can be easily installed in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Linux Mint 19\/18 via <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/sigil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PPA (unofficial) repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal by either pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard or searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from software launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/sigil<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your user password (no asterisks feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sigil-ppa-bionic-600x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sigil-ppa-bionic-600x81.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sigil-ppa-bionic-450x61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sigil-ppa-bionic.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then you can upgrade Sigil editor from an existing release via <b>Software Updater<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor-450x289.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"289\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6351\" srcset=\"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-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/upgrade-sigil-epub-editor.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or install \/upgrade Sigil via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install sigil<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, launch &#8216;Software &#038; Updates&#8217; utility and navigate to &#8216;Other Software&#8217; tab.<\/p>\n<p>To remove Sigil epub editor, either use system package manager or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove sigil sigil-data<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigil epub ebook editor 0.9.10 was released earlier today with new features and various bug-fixes. According to the changelog.txt, Sigil 0.9.10 adds following new features: allow plugins to supply their own icon (plugin.png 48&#215;48) for use on the Quick Launch Toolbar icons extend plugin interface to include the status of the epub inside Sigil (modified [&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-7982","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\/7982","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=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}