Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Aegisub is an open-source, cross-platform tool for editing subtitles. It allows the users to easily sync subtitles with the audio, modify the text of the subtitle and stylish them.
The latest version availabie is Aegisub 3.2.1, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes:
- Actually register the SSA file handler so that SSA files can be opened and exported
- Deduplicate Extradata entries created by Automation scripts
- Fix loading subtitles from Matroska files which have [Aegisub Extradata] sections
- Handle parsing errors when loading Shift Times history
- Add Ukrainian UI translation
In this article I will show you how to install Aegisub 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Aegisub 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the aegisub package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/aegisub
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install aegisub
Optional, to remove aegisub, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove aegisub