How to install Sigil ebook editor on Ubuntu 16.04. Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Sigil ePub Editor 0.9.6 has been released with various new features and bug-fixes.
Sigil-0.9.6
This Sigil-0.9.6 release is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users.
New Features
– created sgc-nav.css stylesheet for nav and allow templates in Prefs Dir for user to control it
– Added General Setting to allow user to set own temporary directory location
– Added Qt Stylesheet support – Recognize and load “qt_styles.qss” file if stored in Sigil Preferences folder
– Extended the plugin interface to add support for epub3 bindings elements
– Add option + forward delete shortcut to active Metadata Editor remove
Bug Fixes
– Make StdWarningDialog resizeable when “Show Details” is used
– Fix CleanSource svg prefix removal bug that sometimes broke valid svg code
– Remove svg image and html5 menuitem from the list of void elements in the Sigil and plugin code
– Properly xml escape “&” in metadata attribute values
– Properly perform source updates on epub on load even when they do not follow recommended spec
– Make handling of comments in both xhtml and xml more robust
– Properly url escape css file names to handle css files with spaces in them
– Try to make direct editing of content.opf more safe by auto-fixing errors when possible
– Properly handle WellFormed checks for pure XML in XMLResource.cpp by using embedded python3 lxml
– Make opf_newparser.py and xmlprocessor.py more robust to broken user input in content.opf
– Make ProcessXML (repairXML in xmlprocessor.py) – leave untouched anything well-formed
– Fix thinko in plugin bookcontainer.py and outputcontainer.py contributed by wrCisco
– Fix for improper encoding in plugins on Mac OS X due to missing inherited plugin environment
– Fix for typos in epub xmlns when splitting epub3 ebooks in BookView
– Update testplugin_v012.zip to testplugin_v013.zip to handle sgc-nav.css new feature
– Fix bugs in DeleteUnusedStyles when selector exists more than once in the same stylesheet
– Fix bugs in DeleteUnusedStyles when group selectors span more than one line
– Fix bugs in Reports: CSS Styles missing cases when selector exists more than once
– Fix bug in Reports: All Files to use Landmark Semantics under epub3 not guide semantics
– Fix bug, slow in loading ini when too large clipboard history, user can now delete them via dialog
– Stop cosmetic double-spaces being introduced into OPF manifest, spine and guide entries
– Prevent bug when user selects too much in BookView and then tries to change case
– Fix bug in Delete Unused Media when css urls do not use quotes
– Try to set all ways of updating the ncx to use 2 character indentation of head element
– Fix Building Relocatable Python on Mac build instructions to remove BeautifulSoup4 requirement
– Fix for generating empty guide for epub3 when in plugins
Install Sigil ePub Editor On Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Sigil ebook editor on Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/sigil
sudo apt upMuhurat
sudo apt install sigil sigil-data
Once installed, open the Sigil ebook editor from Ubuntu Dash.