How to install Remarkable Editor in Ubuntu 18.04 – The Best Markdown Editor for Linux

by ITSmarttricks Team · April 21, 2019

In this article, we will learn How to install Remarkable Editor in Ubuntu 18.04 – The Best Markdown Editor for Linux. It is remarkable that open source is the best markdown editor written for Linux applications and mostly for software developers. This is a lightweight, user-friendly and rich text editor for Linux and one of the best Github syntax format applications. These are major operating systems, e.g. Linux is a cross-platform application available for Microsoft Windows. You can download its source code and customize the great Marcendown Editor Linux app.

Follow the below steps to install Remarkable Editor in Ubuntu 18.04 – The Best Markdown Editor for Linux:

Before starting the installation of Remarkable Editor, update the package and repository of Ubuntu 18.04 using the command given below.

[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for itsmarttricks:
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180725) bionic InRelease
Err:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180725) bionic Release
Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:3 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Ign:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic InRelease

After updating the Packages & Repositories now we have to download the Remarkable Editor from its official website. So use the below command to download the same.

[email protected]:~$ wget http://remarkableapp.github.io/files/remarkable_1.87_all.deb
--2019-04-21 13:09:46-- http://remarkableapp.github.io/files/remarkable_1.87_all.deb
Resolving remarkableapp.github.io (remarkableapp.github.io)... 185.199.109.153, 185.199.111.153, 185.199.110.153, ...
Connecting to remarkableapp.github.io (remarkableapp.github.io)|185.199.109.153|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 76486 (75K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘remarkable_1.87_all.deb’

remarkable_1.87_all 100%[===================>] 74.69K --.-KB/s in 0.09s

2019-04-21 13:09:46 (813 KB/s) - ‘remarkable_1.87_all.deb’ saved [76486/76486]

As you can see below I have already downloaded the Remarkable Editor App .deb package. Refer to the output below.

[email protected]:~$ ls -l remarkable_1.87_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 itsmarttricks itsmarttricks 76486 Feb 23 05:04 remarkable_1.87_all.deb

Now we are ready to install the Remarkable Editor App package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

[email protected]:~$ sudo dpkg -i remarkable_1.87_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package remarkable.
(Reading database ... 214051 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack remarkable_1.87_all.deb ...
Unpacking remarkable (1.87) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of remarkable:
remarkable depends on python3-markdown; however:
Package python3-markdown is not installed.
remarkable depends on python3-bs4; however:
Package python3-bs4 is not installed.
remarkable depends on gir1.2-webkit-3.0; however:
Package gir1.2-webkit-3.0 is not installed.
remarkable depends on wkhtmltopdf; however:
Package wkhtmltopdf is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package remarkable (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
remarkable

As you can see above during the installation, the remarkable editor app is asking for some dependencies. So use the following command to install the necessary dependencies.

[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
breeze-icon-theme calligra-data calligra-libs calligrasheets calligrastage
calligrastage-data calligrawords calligrawords-data fonts-lato fonts-lyx
javascript-common karbon libgsl23 libgslcblas0 libjs-jquery libkchart2
libkchart2-l10n libkf5kdelibs4support-data libkf5kdelibs4support5
wkhtmltopdf
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 90 not upgraded.
50 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 12.0 MB/47.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 141 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 python3-markdown all 2.6.9-1 [53.7 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 python3-bs4 all 4.6.0-1 [67.8 kB]

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Remarkable Editor package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.

[email protected]:~$ sudo dpkg -l remarkable
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
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
iU remarkable 1.87 all A free fully featured markdown ed

To open the Remarkable Editor application just type the command remarkable on shell prompt. Refer to the command below.

[email protected]:~$ remarkable

Remarkable Editor

You can also open the Remarkable Editor graphically using search your computer box. Refer to the snapshot below.

Remarkable Editor

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How To Uninstall Remarkable Editor in Ubuntu 18.04?

For any reasons, if you don’t like Remarkable Editor and want to uninstall the application from your system using the following command.

[email protected]:~$ sudo dpkg -r remarkable
(Reading database ... 214626 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing remarkable (1.87) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

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