How to install Valentina on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Valentina on Ubuntu 17.04

Valentina is a free and open-source application to create clothing articles. It permits the users to create the patterns of cloth either by using standard sizes or custom set of measurements to create unique pattern tools. With Valentina the user can draw patterns of clothing, accessories and after the pattern is finished the output can be exported in corel Draw format to be used in softwares such as Inkscape, Illustrator. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Valentina on Ubuntu 17.04.

Installation procedure

To proceed with the installation procedure, add the required repository by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:dismine/valentina
 Open source project of creating a pattern making program, whose allow
create and modeling patterns of clothing.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dismine/valentina
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install valentina
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~dismine/+archive/ubuntu/valentina
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpbk3dfmli/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpbk3dfmli/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key AB7A023CA8B77E4F: public key " Launchpad PPA for Roman"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories are added to the system. Now update the system by running the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease              
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease            
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dismine/valentina/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dismine/valentina/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages [560 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dismine/valentina/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages [564 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dismine/valentina/ubuntu zesty/main Translation-en [372 B]
Fetched 16.9 kB in 6s (2,415 B/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Install Valentina application by executing the install command and press y to continue with the installation process.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install valentina -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gsfonts-x11 libmotif-common libxm4 xpdf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gsfonts-x11 libmotif-common libxm4 valentina xpdf
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 283 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,181 kB of archives.
After this operation, 70.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 libmotif-common all 2.3.4-13 [11.0 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 libxm4 amd64 2.3.4-13 [996 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 gsfonts-x11 all 0.24 [7,314 B]
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
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) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up xpdf (3.04-4) ...
Setting up valentina (0.5.0-2~ubuntu17.04.1) ...
ldconfig..
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...

The valentina application is installed successfully in the system. To run the application, type the valentina application name in the Ubuntu dashboard and click on it to run the app.

The Valentina application is now ready to be used.

Thus we conclude the installation procedure of Valentina on Ubuntu 17.04.