How to install Light Table on Ubuntu

To install Light Table on Ubuntu

Light Table is an open source and light-weight IDE Code editor tool used for programmers and developers. Light Table is an easy-to-install tool, and this article explains the installation of Light Table on Ubuntu.

Installing Light Table

Since Light Table is not available on Ubuntu' s default repository, add the repository for Light Table on your system by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:dr-akulavich/lighttable
 Light Table Installer: the package in this PPA downloads and installs the latest builds from http://lighttable.com/
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~dr-akulavich/+archive/ubuntu/lighttable
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp6opgtr4f/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp6opgtr4f/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key 85C79C73 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp6opgtr4f/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 85C79C73: public key " Launchpad PPA for Anton Yakutovich"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once it is added, update your repository as follows.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dr-akulavich/lighttable/ubuntu xenial InRelease          
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                              
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install Light Table.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install lighttable-installer -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lighttable-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 459 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,292 B of archives.
After this operation, 20.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dr-akulavich/lighttable/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 lighttable-installer amd64 0.8.0-1~ppa~3 [4,292 B]
Fetched 4,292 B in 0s (10.5 kB/s)               
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package lighttable-installer.
.
.
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2017-03-08 00:01:31 (71.8 KB/s) - ‘ lighttable_0.8.0_x64.tar.gz’  saved [56368184/56368184]

Download done.
Removing outdated cached downloads...
Unpacking lighttable-installer (0.8.0-1~ppa~3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up lighttable-installer (0.8.0-1~ppa~3) ...
Successfully installed in /opt/LightTable

Thus Light Table is installed in your machine. You can open it from your Ubuntu Dashboard.