Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Sweet Home 3D is an open source interior design application, allowing the users to easily rearrange their house. Among others, in allows the users to draw walls and rooms on existing plans, drag and drop windows, doors and others from the catalog to the plan, modify color, texture size and orientation of the furniture, ceilings, floors and walls, view the changes in 3D, import and export plans, etc. The latest version available is Sweet Home 3D 4.3, which comes with fixes and improvements. For information about the changes and enhancements brought by the latest version, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Sweet Home 3D 4.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 16 Petra, Linux Mint 13 Maya and Elementary OS 0.2 Luna.
Because it is available via the GetDeb PPA, installing Sweet Home 3D 4.3 on the listed Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the sweethome3d package.
Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Sweet Home 3D 4.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 and Linux Mint 16:
$ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ saucy-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sweethome3d
How to install Sweet Home 3D 4.3 on Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13 and Elementary OS 0.2:
$ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ precise-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sweethome3d