How To Install sigil-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sigil-data
sigil-data is:
Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
Features:
- Full UTF-16 support;
- Full EPUB 2 spec support;
- Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View;
- WYSIWYG editing in Book View;
- Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View;
- Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support;
- Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each;
- User interface translated into many languages;
- Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries;
- Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace;
- Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets;
- Files can be validated for EPUB compliance with the FlightCrew validator;
- HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned.
This package provides the architecture-independant files.
There are three methods to install sigil-data on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sigil-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sigil-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sigil-data
Install sigil-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sigil-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sigil-data
Install sigil-data Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sigil-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sigil-data
How To Uninstall sigil-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sigil-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sigil-data
Uninstall sigil-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sigil-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sigil-data
Remove sigil-data Configurations and Data
To remove sigil-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sigil-data
Remove sigil-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sigil-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sigil-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
