Utopia Documents

Linux Instructions

Please note that only a few distributions are currently supported. We hope to produce builds for other common distributions soon.

Installing with apt

Ubuntu

Due to requiring recent versions of various dependencies, only Oneiric (11.10), Precise (12.04 LTS), Quantal (12.10) and Raring (13.04) are supported. Start a Terminal. Paste these commands into a terminal in one go; they will add the utopia apt repository, install its public key and then install utopia-documents:

echo "deb http://utopiadocs.com/apt $(lsb_release -cs) main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/utopia.list && \
sudo apt-get --quiet update && \
sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install utopia-keyring && \
sudo apt-get --quiet update && \
sudo apt-get install utopia-documents

Following this, updates will appear in your package manager automatically.

Debian

Due to requiring recent versions of various dependencies, only Wheezy (7.0) is currently supported. If you use Debian without sudo, become root with: 

su root

(enter root password)

Then copy and paste these commands in one go: 

apt-get install lsb-release && \
echo > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/utopia.list \
"deb http://utopiadocs.com/apt $(lsb_release -cs) main" && \
apt-get --quiet update && \
apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install utopia-keyring && \
apt-get --quiet update && \
apt-get install utopia-documents

Following this, updates will appear in your package manager automatically.

Manual Install

Download the appropriate package based on your distribution name and whether it is 32/64 bit from: http://utopiadocs.com/apt/pool/main/u/utopia-documents

Installed this way, it will not be updated automatically via the package manager.

Starting utopia-documents

  • The utopia-documents application will appear in the system menu (Gnome Menu: Applications / Office / Utopia Documents )

  • The menu displayed when right clicking a pdf in the file manager will also have an entry "Open with Utopia Documents"

Known Issues

  • Trying to view a 3D molecule on a machine without OpenGL available exits the application with the message "Error: Missing GL version" displayed in the terminal; if you do not have OpenGL available, do not click the "play" button at this time.