How To Install sigil on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil on Ubuntu.

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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu

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 Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sigil

Remove sigil Configurations and Data

To remove sigil configuration and data from Ubuntu 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

sigil website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sigil package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.