Sigil is a free and open source ebook editing software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Using this you can edit books in ePub format. It supports both ePub 2 and ePub 3 file formats. It is based on QtWebEngine and released under GNU General Public License v3.0. It comes with full full UTF-16 support, code view and preview view, metadata editor, Spell checking and you can extend the features of Sigil with plugins. Some other useful features are diect editing of EPUB syntax in code view and comes with build-in table of contents generator with multi-level heading support.
In your ebook you can import EPUB, HTML files, images and style sheets and it also supports full regular expression (PCRE).
How to install Sigil Ebook Editor on Ubuntu
You can install Sigil Ebook Editor via Ubuntu PPA. Open the terminal app and run below commands one by on to install the latest version of Sigil Ebook Editor on Ubuntu linux system.
Ubuntu 21.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xiota/stuff-21.04
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install sigil
Ubuntu 20.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xiota/stuff-20.04
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install sigil
Ubuntu 20.10
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xiota/stuff-20.10
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install sigil
After the installation, open Sigil via below command or from the show applications menu.
sigil
That’s all.
