This version is working on my Pixelbook, without Crouton. Needed to track down a few libraries, but is loading great, and syncing to Google Drive via command line.
So I have Parrot Sec OS installed on my computer and I downloaded the 1.9 release, and for some reason, i canāt seem to get it to work. I ran the .deb. and even downloaded the tar file for the 64-bit and the 32-bit, but iām getting no results. Is there a way to run this program?
Nevermind, got it to work!
Hi everybody,
Iāve tried Scrivener last year to make my lesson plans and liked it very much. It fitted in well for my uses as a biology teacher. I am a Debian user and along with learning to use the program, I had a need to make a DEB package to Debian 9 (Stretch), where I fixed some small quirk things regarding to a smooth installation and instant usage of the program without further adjustments. It might work in any distribution derived from Debian (Ubuntu, Mint, etc).
Here is the package for you to use and inspect: <<Download>> (hosted at Gdrive)
This package is tweaked from the original 1.9.0.1 and 1.7.2.4 version of Scrivener for linux. I also moved the Scrivener directory to $/opt . The paths and desktop integration were adjusted and the dependencies are included in a separated archive, as it is fairly old and are no more present on updated distros.
I observe that, as the original configuration file can be generated with some proprietary fonts listed, to the āIndexCardā and āAppearanceā (for instance), this package comes with a āScrivener.confā and āscrivener.prefsā files pre-made and adjusted to set metric equivalent quality free fonts (under open source licenses). So these files will be in the directory $HOME/Scrivener/Backup --and these fonts is installed to the path $/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-scrivener.
See below the substitutions (fromā>to):
[] Arial --> Liberation Sans
[] Sans Serif (Microsoft) --> Asap
[*] Courier New --> Nimbus Mono
Hope you enjoy it! I made it for personal needs and decided to share here in case anyone may want to give it a try.
Obs.: If the moderators find my post out of bounds in any aspect, please advise.
EDITs:
1 - changed the hosting to GDrive, so anyone can download directly
2 - download link updated
@Alexo:
Well, your contribution is a day on the board, so the admins should have seen it and had the chance to reactā¦
Maybe your deb-file is a fine solution for Linux, for shure it looks interessing. But - it must be possible to try out. I cantāt download it ānormalā from 4share and I wonāt give them my eMail-adress, direct or indirect. Is it possible for you to give another location for download?
HWM
I will try to find a better hosting option and get back here.
Any suggestion?
EDITs:
1 - I uploaded the file to GDrive, with a direct download link now. It might turn things easy. :-)
2 - Updated DEB archive. The link to download is ahead, in other post.
@Alexo
Thank you very much for enabling the download. The deb installed fine and some work could be done (with no data lost), but it crashed after a short time.
Xubuntu 18.10:
The interresting lines in the errormessage are
- /opt/scrivener/bin/Scrivener:6:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.28.so+535:/ā¦/libScrCompiler.so.1.0.0+e6e36
- UnreportableReason
and then - translated: - This is no official Ubuntu packet. Please remove it.
But, keep up the good work 
. No, just kidding - it looks fine and to put it in /opt is just right.
HWM
Had it really crashing? I use it on Debian 9 (backported) and at an old Mint installation (at least 1 year without updates I guess) with no problems. Did not tested in Ubuntu directly. I tested extensively before post here, but maybe a test in a VM would be cool to prevent crashes in another distros.
@hwm, may you open it via terminal and send me the output in pvt?
@Alexo:
Sorry, I deinstalled and deleted the .deb-file directly after the event. Please, no extended beta-testing for meā¦
HWM
@sninkychan, thank you.
It must work into any updated distro (Debian 9 based and newer ones), but the installation would be problematic in old distros (Debian 8 and before) due to dependencies includes, so please be careful.
For any distro based on Debian 8 and before, I think the LLās package is ok.
So, as I intend to continue using it, later on I will fix it to match Debian packaging rules more closely.
EDIT:
1 - The DEB archive is updated to comply with some distros and to be installed in any release. The link to download is ahead, in other post.I love Scrivener, and Iām so thankful for it. I am a Linux user (twelve years so far). But I bought a licence for Scrivener for Windows. Now I see this thread and the software for Linux. This is awesome!
But I have questions.
I have been running Scrivener for Windows (1.9.8.0) in a Windows virtual machine (Oracle Virtualbox) on my Linux machine. This has worked quite well, but (late as usual) I now see that you kindly did a Linux version of Scrivener, and I installed it. Itās beautiful and opens my Scrivener files just as the Windows version (in the virtual machine) does. But itās so much nicer and quicker to use this Linux version.
And my questions are: everything seems to work fine in terms of saving files and opening them in either version, so Iām guessing that the formats are the same. Am I right? Can I keep using the Linux version without fear that my files will not be accessible in the Windows version?
Many thanks again for your simply excellent work!
If I recall correctly, the last Linux version released is quite a bit older than the current Windows version, and pre-dates features such as the format changes necessary for syncing to iOS Scrivener. If youāre going to use it cross-platform, youāre probably better off using WINE to run the current Scrivener for Windows version in your Linux environment.
Hi there!
I reviewed my last attempt to make a DEB archive for the now old Scrivener for linux, and I guess am achieved the goal.
NOTE: The intention of this packing is to keep alive the linux version
of this awesome software, with fixes and adjustments on the last
original released versions of its DEB packages, into an updated package
(as much as possible) adapted to distribution's releases after Debian 8
(Jessie).
Alex.. - <lex@teknik.io>Download: <DEB archive and dependencies v1.9.0.1-2a - amd64>
Please read the README file inside the download folder.
The package was prepared to work in Debian based distros and to avoid breakage of packages, the dependencies and additions are archived apart.
Tested:
Debian 8 (Jessie) w/ Gnome
Debian 9 (Stretch) w/ Mate and Cinnamon
MX 17 w/ Xfce
LMDE2 Mate
LMDE3
Mint 19 Cinnamon
Xubuntu 18.4
Ubuntu 18.4Obs.: In any distro based in Debian 9 and above, video play inside Scrivener may be restricted.
If need any correction, please make me know. Any comment will be very appreciated.
Thatās it!
Salutes,
Alexā¦
EDIT: Tested distros.
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From a Mint Linux KDE user - thank you.
Thanks , Alexo. I have the Windows version and I was running the Linux version on Mint 18.3. That seemed to work well. Then I installed Mint 19.1 and there was no joy for me there. Your .deb and the dependencies worked like magic.
Alexo, I just created an account to thank you for keeping the package alive, and also to thank Lit & Latte for having made this Linux version available (for free no less!).
I have a Scrivener Windows license but recently migrated to Linux. Unfortunately, Scrivener under wine was giving me some trouble (which was very particular to my set-up), so I and am delighted to have found this thread with a native version.
I only wish that the next version of Scrivener could also be ported to Linux one day, though I understand that may be too much of an askā¦
I have installed the native Linux version now on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit, and it runs fine. Although I know and Iām able to install Scrivener via WINE, this is not what I want. Simply because I got rid off the Windows stuff more than 3 years ago.
So I will keep this version as long as it runs under Ubuntu.
I will be glad to pay another 25 EUR for a supported native actual Scrivener Linux version.
More and more people ā especially the creative ones ā see the great value add in Open Systems. As the Apple OS is more or less a UNIX, I donāt think that it is that complicated to produce a UNIX package.
Itās a BSD variant, but the bigger hurdle is Appleās programming environment, which is rather specific to MacOS.