How To Install Geary 0.12.1 on Linux Mint 18.3

To Install Geary 0.12.1 on Linux Mint 18.3

Geary 0.12 is the first major update to the popular Linux mail app. Avid fans of the client will find a number of enhancements on offer, including several improvements to the rich text composer, Yahoo! Mail and Outlook mail archiving support, and a better mail labeling experience.
This update also makes it easier to learn Geary&rsquo s many keyboard shortcuts: just press Ctrl + ? with the app is in focus to make a help sheet appear.
The new version of Geary is packed with powerful features and some of them are listed as follows.

Features

• Insert images inline when composing rich text messages
• Improved interface for inserting links in rich text messages
• Choose multiple spell-checker languages when composing messages
• Support message archiving for Yahoo! Mail and Outlook.com
• Support saving remote inline images
• Improved keyboard navigation for conversations
• Added in-application keyboard shortcut help (Ctrl + ?)
• Improved security when displaying messages
• It is so simple to install Geary 0.12.1 on Linux Mint 18.3, and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Geary 0.12.1

First, make sure you update the system by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease             
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release \[24.2 kB\]        
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease \[102 kB\]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease \[102 kB\]                    
Get:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release.gpg \[819 B\]                                           
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease \[102 kB\] 
Get:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia/upstream amd64 Packages \[45.5 kB\]   
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Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en \[238 kB\]                           
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages \[4,836 B\]                            
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main i386 Packages \[4,840 B\]                             
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages \[6,628 B\]                        
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages \[6,620 B\]                         
Fetched 5,024 kB in 13s (379 kB/s)                                                                                
Reading package lists... Done

And then make sure you add repository by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # add-apt-repository ppa:geary-team/releases You are about to add the following PPA:
 Official Geary release packages for supported Ubuntu distributions.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~geary-team/+archive/ubuntu/releases
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.PBm9p2K9uE/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
7A51D6F2
gpg: requesting key 7A51D6F2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 7A51D6F2: public key " Launchpad PPA for Geary"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

linuxhelp user # apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                           
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                        
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Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/geary-team/releases/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages \[896 B\]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/geary-team/releases/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en \[636 B\]
Fetched 21.4 kB in 2s (7,848 B/s)                   
Reading package lists... Done

linuxhelp user # apt-get install geary Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  geary
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 201 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,582 kB of archives.
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Preparing to unpack .../geary\_0.12.1-1~xenial2\_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking geary (0.12.1-1~xenial2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.48.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up geary (0.12.1-1~xenial2) ...