How to install Zim editor on Parrot OS 3.9

To install Zim editor on ParrotOS 3.9

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. Installing Zim editor on ParrotOS 3.9 is really simple and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Zim

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

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #vim /etc/apt/sources.list

And in that file, you need to add the following lines, which ensures that the repositories are added.

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

Once it is done, you shall update your system as follows.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease                            
Hit:2 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot stable InRelease                         
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release  
Reading package lists... Done          

You shall now proceed with the installation of Zim editor by making use of the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ # apt-get install zim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  python-gtkspellcheck
Suggested packages:
  python-gtkspellcheck-doc bzr fossil ditaa scrot dvipng python-gtksourceview2 python-zeitgeist r-base lilypond
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-gtkspellcheck zim
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1479 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,157 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,752 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 python-gtkspellcheck all 4.0.5-1 [28.2 kB]
Get:1 http://parrot.asis.io stable/main amd64 zim all 0.67-2 [1,129 kB]                                                                                                                                        
Fetched 1,157 kB in 1min 5s (17.6 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package python-gtkspellcheck.
(Reading database ... 419716 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python-gtkspellcheck_4.0.5-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python-gtkspellcheck (4.0.5-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package zim.
Preparing to unpack .../archives/zim_0.67-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking zim (0.67-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
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Setting up zim (0.67-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ...
Setting up python-gtkspellcheck (4.0.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
Configuring sandbox profiles....
Sandbox profiles updated!

After the installation, you can launch the application by going to the Applications and choose Accessories ---> Zim Desktop Wiki

You will be asked to name your notebook and the folder.

Your newly installed image will appear on your screen now.

With this, the installation of Zim on ParrotOS 3.9 comes to an end.