How to install Zim on Debian 9.0

Installation of Zim Text Editor in Debian 9.0

Zim is a lightweight and open-source graphical text editor which is built for maintaining a collection of locally stored wiki-pages. Wiki-page contains text with links to other wiki-pages, attachments, simple formatting, and images. Zim is programmed in Python using GTK+ libraries. Installation of Zim Text editor in Ubuntu is explained in this manual.

To install Zim package

Before installation, make sure you add the repo to your system. Run the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file.

root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Once the file is open, add the following lines to its end.

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

Save and exit once done.

Once the repo is added, update the apt sources.list file by running the following command.

root@debian:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease [88.5 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease [62.9 kB]
Ign:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease         
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Sources [47.3 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main amd64 Packages [119 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates/main Translation-en [49.4 kB]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release [118 kB]                                                               
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                                                        
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Sources [6,749 kB]                                                     
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [87.3 kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources.diff/Index [13.0 kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages.diff/Index [8,608 B]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib Sources [44.7 kB]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en.diff/Index [4,180 B]
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Reading package lists... Done

After the update is done, you can install the Zim package by triggering the following command.

root@debian:~# apt-get install zim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree           
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
Use ' apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
   python-enchant python-gobject python-gtkspellcheck python-xdg
Suggested packages:
   python-wxgtk3.0 python-gtkspellcheck-doc bzr git mercurial fossil graphviz ditaa scrot dvipng
   python-gtksourceview2 python-zeitgeist r-base gnuplot lilypond
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   python-enchant python-gobject python-gtkspellcheck python-xdg zim
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,516 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,224 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up python-xdg (0.25-4) ...
Setting up zim (0.65-4) ...

Once the package is installed, click on your activities search bar and type the package name and click on the Zim icon when it appears on screen.

With this the installation of Zim Text Editor is complete.