Compiling Sigil on Linux Mint

zc456
  12 years ago
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Quickly build Sigil, an WYSIWYG ebook editor, for Linux Mint 9 or above, follow these steps. Don't forget to download the source!

 

1.  First add the Kubuntu backports for the Qt 4.7.x development library or above. Mint 9 users only.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports && sudo apt-get update

2. Add the source folder to the home directory, enter it, install the Qt libraries and generate the makefiles.

cd sigil && sudo apt-get install cmake g++ libqt4-gui libqt4-svg libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-dev && cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

3. Finally, make and install. :)

make && sudo make install