How To Install sigil on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil on CentOS 7. sigil is WYSIWYG ebook editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil on CentOS 7.

What is sigil

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format. Now what does it have to offer… * Full Unicode support UTF-16 * Full EPUB spec support * WYSIWYG editing * Multiple Views * Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries with full descriptions for each * Table Of Contents editor * Multi-level TOC support * Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec * SVG support * Basic XPGT support * Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode * Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time * Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually)

We can use yum or dnf to install sigil on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sigil.

Install sigil on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sigil using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sigil

Install sigil on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sigil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sigil

How To Uninstall sigil on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the sigil package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sigil

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.