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Jan 31, 2014 - Upgrading to Scrivener's newest beta. The readme says to remove previous installations, but doesn't provide specific instructions. From the forum, if installed via.deb, easy enough: sudo dpkg -r scrivener:i386. Then: sudo dpkg -i scrivener-1.6.1.1-beta.deb. Didn't have to do any i386 stuff. Not sure if that's. You can find out about the Linux beta. Scrivener for Linux also lacks a pdf reader. Scrivener on Linux. Submitted by rakemup.

Occasionally, I will install the latest version of Scrivener beta for Linux. It really hasn’t been very useful to me until now. But in messing around with it over the past few days, I can see that it has reached a very usable state. This is important to me, because my MacBook is slowly dying and I don’t want to replace it with another MacBook.

I’m just not rich enough for the Apple ecosystem. Besides, I really love using Linux. So every time I use my Mac, I feel like a betrayer. Anyway, enough of my sad, computer-using angst. Here is a screenshot of the latest port from the Windows version of Scrivener, running on Ubuntu. (Click picture to enlarge.) This is a scene from my current WIP – Starveyors. I don’t think it will give any spoilers, so feel free to read this unedited, first draft snippet.

This is a stripped down version of Scrivener if you are used to the Apple version, but you know what? It still does 90% of what most writers need from the application. So I think it’s a win. When my MacBook finally croaks, I’l be replacing it with a decent laptop running Ubuntu and be in Geek heaven. I really hope this goes final soon and I can actually buy it for Ubuntu.

The beta expiration workaround is getting old. Admin May 30, 2012 at 9:50 pm Hi Toni, I have looked at both Trelby and Kabikaboo before. Trelby is primarily for screenplays, although I think they have a novel afterthought. Construction After Effects Projects Videohive.

Kabikaboo is great for organizing things for a novel, but other than that, it’s not really any better than a simple text editor. I wrote my last novel primarily in Gedit using a hierarchical file system. It’s doable, just not as easy as Scrivener. The last time I booted into Scrivener on Linux it was back to being twitchy, so I’m back to the Mac for finishing my WIP. I really hope they get the Linux port stable soon. Thanks for the comment!