How to install Tiled Map Editor on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Tiled Map Editor on Ubuntu 17.04

Tiled Map Editor is a free and one of the most popular level editor for creating attractive map in game development. Tiled Map Editor supports editing tile maps in various projections. It also has support for building levels with freely positioned, rotated or scaled images or annotating them with objects of various shapes.

Installing Tiled Map Editor

In order to install Tilled Editor, prior addition of the necessary packages is required, so add them via ppa as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~#  add-apt-repository ppa:mapeditor.org/tiled
 Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor, written in C++ using the Qt application framework.
Website: http://www.mapeditor.org
More info: https://launchpad.net/~mapeditor.org/+archive/ubuntu/tiled
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

After adding the dependency packages, update the machine by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp:~#  apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]     
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapeditor.org/tiled/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [12.5 kB]
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease             
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Get:18 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [5,140 B]
Fetched 626 kB in 14s (42.4 kB/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install Tiled Map Editor, so kick-start its installation by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~#  apt-get install tiled-daily
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tiled-daily
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Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.8-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...

Once the installation is done, go to Ubuntu dashboard and type tiled. The app' s icon will be displayed on your screen. Click on it to access it.

Once the application is open, click New Tileset.

Enter name and select source image location. Click Save As.

Select the saving location and click save.

The application opens.

With this, the installation of Tiled Map Editor on Ubuntu is complete.