---
name: "sigil"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sigil"
version: "2.4.2+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sigil"
---

# sigil(1)

multi-platform ebook editor

## NAME

sigil - multi-platform ebook editor

## SYNOPSIS

**sigil**

## DESCRIPTION

A multi-platform ebook editor, designed to edit books in ePub format.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Sigil recognises the following environment variables:

*SIGIL\_DICTIONARIES*

This environment variable specifies the location of the hunspell dictionaries. In Debian it points to /usr/share/hunspell to use the system installed dictionaries provided by hunspell-dictionary.

## AUTHOR

Sigil was written by several authors.

This manual page was written by Norbert Preining and Mattia Rizzolo for the Debian project (and may be used by others).