How to install GhostWriter 1.7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04
To install GhostWriter 1.7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04
GhostWriter is a stylish, free and open source, distraction free Markdown editor that runs well on both Windows and Linux. Due to its sleek and clean design, it is getting popular as one of the most sought after Markdown editor among the writing community. It is designed with several built in themes. It has an intuitive and innovative interface which makes editing text using Ghostwriter a seamless activity. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of GhostWriter on Ubuntu 18.04.
Installation
Add the repository of GhostWriter using PPA
root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
Ubuntu package archive for http://github.com/wereturtle/
More info: https://launchpad.net/~wereturtle/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
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Reading package lists... Done
Install the GhostWriter package using the following command
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install ghostwriter -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
libaprutil1-ldap
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
myspell-dictionary
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ghostwriter
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
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Selecting previously unselected package ghostwriter.
(Reading database ... 185048 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ghostwriter_1.7.3-0ppa1~bionic1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ghostwriter (1.7.3-0ppa1~bionic1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.1) ...
Setting up ghostwriter (1.7.3-0ppa1~bionic1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Once Installation is done you can access the GhostWriter from the Menu as shown here
GhostWriter application

The version of GhostWriter can be found in Help-> About
With this, the method to install GhostWriter on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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