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How To Install Light Table 0.8.1 On Ubuntu 16.04

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Install Light Table IDE on Ubuntu – Light Table Code Editor. Terminal commands to install Light Table 0.8.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.

Features of Light Table

  • Next-gen println to keep track of important values in your code. Just add a watch to an expression and the value will be streamed back to LT in real time.
  • No more printing to the console in order to view your results. Simply evaluate your code and the results will be displayed inline.
  • Developer tools should be open source. Every bit of Light Table’s code is available to the community because none of us are as smart as all of us.
  • Keymaps, behaviors, and Light Table’s Behavior-Object-Tag engine means you can easily shape your IDE to whatever your work requires.
  • The plugin manager hooks into the central list of plugins so you don’t have to go hunting all over the internet to find the ones you want.
  • Light Table is a lightweight, clean, and sleek interface with all of the power and functionality you need and expect from your editor.

Light Table 0.8.1 Changelog

  • CHANGED: [:app :lt.objs.settings/pair-keymap-diffs] behavior is being deprecated. Use [:editor :lt.objs.editor/autoclose-brackets] in your user.behaviors instead. lt.objs.editor/autoclose-brackets should fix autoclosing characters e.g. ‘[{” for international users.
  • CHANGED: Backspace key uses the same CodeMirror plugin that lt.objs.editor/autoclose-brackets does
  • CHANGED: lt.util.cljs/js->clj is being deprecated. Plugin authors can use the js->clj that comes with ClojureScript
  • CHANGED: Removed unused lt.objs.titlebar ns and lt.objs.titlebar/add-titlebar behavior
  • CHANGED: Removed unused styling in structure.css
  • CHANGED: Removed harbor and jshint node packages that belong to other LightTable plugins
  • CHANGED: Removed :hide-connect command which is the same as :show-connect
  • CHANGED: Removed light skin which was just a confusing pointer to dark skin
  • CHANGED: files/open-sync logs an error when trying to open a nonexistent file. Previously the error was ignored
  • CHANGED: Check for updates every hour instead of every 5 minutes
  • FIX: Git (vcs) friendly! Changing branches and doing rebases doesn’t cause buggy dialogs. If a file is removed, the tab is closed. If a file has a local modification, the user decides whether to overwrite the current file or not
  • FIX: LightTable documentation supports navigation as it is now in a browser tab
  • FIX: Save and remove trailing whitespace behavior refreshes tab
  • FIX: Navigator no longer cuts off end of files i.e. can scroll horizontally
  • FIX: Case sensitive renaming of files e.g. readme -> README
  • FIX: Faster detection of binaries in build scripts
  • FIX: In linux, middle click to close tab doesn’t paste clipboard contents
  • FIX: :open-path command resolves relative paths before opening them
  • FIX: Clearer description of font-settings behavior
  • FIX: Clear console error when github endpoints returns invalid JSON
  • FIX: All errors are consistently caught and logged to console
  • ADDED: Light Table builds without warnings on ClojureScript 1.7.x
  • ADDED: Add build target for generating cljsdeps.js (need for ClojureScript upgrade)
  • ADDED: Linux and Windows users have access keys on menus
  • ADDED: Linux and Windows users have additional menu items under File: Quit Light Table and About Light Table
  • ADDED: Added file type definitions for html templates: ERB, ASPX, EJS, JSP
  • ADDED: Command-0/Ctrl-0 to reset zoom and Command-=/Ctrl-= to zoom in
  • ADDED: Disply notification to user after installing/updating/uninstalling a plugin

Install Light Table 0.8.1 on Ubuntu 16.04

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Light Table 0.8.1 on Ubuntu Systems:

Method 1

wget https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/releases/download/0.8.1/lighttable-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz
tar -xvf lighttable-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz
sudo mv lighttable-0.8.1-linux /opt/LightTable
sudo ln -s /opt/LightTable/LightTable /usr/bin/lighttable
lighttable

Method 2

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dr-akulavich/lighttable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lighttable-installer

Once installed, open Light Table from Ubuntu Dash.

If you wish to uninstall Light Table from Ubuntu Systems, run the commands given below:

sudo apt-get remove lighttable-installer
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:dr-akulavich/lighttable