Sunday, 8 June 2014

Zeal : Offline API documentation browser for Linux

Quoted from zealdocs.org "Zeal is a simple offline API documentation browser inspired by Dash (OS X app), available Linux and Windows".

Zeal gives you offline API documentation for most of the Libraries out there like Angular, Backbone, Django and many more. You can check the list on Dash's website

You can easily install on Ubuntu 14.04 by following steps
1. Run following in terminal
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jerzy-kozera/zeal-ppa

2. then do  sudo apt-get update

3. and install with sudo apt-get install zeal

After installing Zeal it can be started from terminal by running zeal and add it to to Startup Application.

Right now only version supported is for Ubuntu Linux Trusty (14.04). Zeal is available for previous version but are not supported officially.

Issues and Solutions
  • I faced a minor issue after installing Zeal. I was not able to see main menu on top of it from where you can I found solution at zeal issues . I tried removing appmenu-qt5 package which worked from me. 
  • Every time starting Zeal will show a popup that it's Hotkey is confliting with system's. So I changed it's default Hotkey from Alt + Space to Ctrl + Shift + Space (Synapse is already using Ctrl + Space)

No comments:

Post a Comment