HOW TO INSTALL LIGHT TABLE IDE (LIGHT TABLE EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST CODE EDITOR FOR LINUX
HOW TO INSTALL LIGHT TABLE IDE (LIGHT TABLE EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST CODE EDITOR FOR LINUX
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install light table ide in Ubuntu 16.04. Light table editor is a open source code editor application. This application was mainly developed for software developers. Light Table ide application was initially written by Robert Attorri & Chris Granger on year 2012 using ClojureScript and released under MIT license. Now let’s have a look at features of light table editor application :
- Light Table editor can be used to write multiple programming languages i.e. PHP, HTML, Coffee Script, Ruby and many more.
- Extend the features of this application by installing 100+ official plugins.
- Light Table ide code editor is a cross platform application available for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
- Auto completes the programming language syntax.
- Available for both 32 Bit & 64 Bit operating systems.
- Syntax Highlighter.
For more information on light table editor Click Here! to visit the official website.
Follow the below steps to install Light Table ide (Light Table editor) in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best code editor for Linux
Before start the installation of Light Table editor we have to install official PPA repository for that as light table is not a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. Hence to install the PPA repository use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dr-akulavich/lighttable # Install PPA Repository
[sudo] password for elinuxbook:
Light Table Installer: the package in this PPA downloads and installs the latest builds from http://lighttable.com/
More info: https://launchpad.net/~dr-akulavich/+archive/ubuntu/lighttable
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9rzu7828/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9rzu7828/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 85C79C73 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp9rzu7828/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 85C79C73: public key "Launchpad PPA for Anton Yakutovich" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
After installing the PPA repository update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command to take effect.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/atareao/telegram/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dr-akulavich/lighttable/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/embrosyn/xapps/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mhsabbagh/greenproject/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Now we are ready to install the light table editor (light table ide) application. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install lighttable-installer # Install the light table ide Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lighttable-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 252 not upgraded.
.
.
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up lighttable-installer (0.8.0-1~ppa~3) ...
Successfully installed in /opt/LightTable
Also Read :
- HOW TO INSTALL ATOM TEXT EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04
- HOW TO INSTALL DRPYTHON PYTHON TEXT EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST PYTHON EDITOR FOR LINUX
- HOW TO INSTALL SCITE TEXT EDITOR (SCINTILLA BASED TEXT EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04
- HOW TO INSTALL KATE EDITOR (KATE TEXT EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX TEXT EDITOR
As you can see above we have successfully installed the light table editor package. To confirm the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l lighttable-installer # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii lighttable-installer 0.8.0-1~ppa~3 amd64 Light Table is an IDE for software engineering
Now open the application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN LIGHT TABLE IDE CODE EDITOR GRAPHICALLY
Here below I have shown the Light Table ide code editor application snap :
LIGHT TABLE EDITOR APPLICATION
To uninstall the light table ide code editor Package use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r lighttable-installer # Uninstall the light table editor Package
(Reading database ... 212259 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lighttable-installer (0.8.0-1~ppa~3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
This is how we can install Light Table IDE (Light Table editor) in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best code editor for Linux. If you found this article useful then Like us, Share this post on your preferred Social media, Subscribe our Newsletter OR if you have something to say then feel free to comment on the comment box below.
