How To Install Sigil EBook Editor On Linux Mint 18.03

To Install Sigil EBook Editor on Linux mint 18.03

Sigil is an open source EPUB eBook editor that runs on Linux Ubuntu Systems. It is designed with several new features and bug-fixes. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of sigil on Linux mint 18.03.

Features

Provide sgc-nav.css stylesheet and allow templates in Prefs Directory.

Additional Setting to set own temporary directory location.

Support Qt Stylesheet and epub3 bindings elements.

Shortcut to active Metadata Editor.

Installation

Add the repository of sigil EBook Editor by using PPA.

linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/sigil
You are about to add the following PPA:
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/sigil
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.xwi5DOkxLX/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
852541CB
gpg: requesting key 852541CB from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 852541CB: public key "Launchpad PPA for Panda Jim" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

Let's first start with updating the system repositories.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                       
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                 
Hit:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                                         
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/sigil/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]                     
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                    
Hit:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                             
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease         
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/sigil/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [1,424 B]
Hit:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                              
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/sigil/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,528 B]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/sigil/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [1,516 B]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/sigil/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,024 B]
Fetched 23.0 kB in 2s (9,279 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Install the Sigil application run the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install sigil sigil-data 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libhunspell-dev libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-scrollto libminizip1 libqt5concurrent5
Recommended packages:
  javascript-common python3-cssselect python3-cssutils python3-html5lib python3-regex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libhunspell-dev libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-scrollto libminizip1 libqt5concurrent5 sigil sigil-data
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 404 not upgraded.
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Setting up libjs-jquery (1.11.3+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up libminizip1:amd64 (1.1-8) ...
Setting up libqt5concurrent5:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5) ...
Setting up libjs-jquery-scrollto (2.1.2+dfsg-1) ...
Setting up sigil-data (0.9.10+dfsg-0ubuntu16.04) ...
Setting up sigil (0.9.10+dfsg-0ubuntu16.04) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the Sigil application from the Menu as shown here

Now, you can able to use the Sigil application.

Verify the version of Sigil.

With this, the method to install Sigil on Linux mint 18.03 comes to an end.