How To Install sigil on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil on Debian 9.
What is sigil
sigil 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.
There are three methods to install sigil on Debian 9. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sigil
Install sigil Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sigil using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sigil
Install sigil 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sigil using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sigil
How To Uninstall sigil on Debian 9
To uninstall only the sigil package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sigil
Uninstall sigil And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sigil and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sigil
Remove sigil Configurations and Data
To remove sigil configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sigil
Remove sigil configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sigil configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sigil
Dependencies
sigil have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.