On my Ubuntu MATE 24.04 setup, I have recently started using Ghostwriter to write documentation, take notes in Markdown format, with the hope that I'd later convert them to HTML or PDF using pandoc. In fact, I realized that Ghostwriter itself uses pandoc for rendering the Markdown in most of the "Markdown render themes" (beyond the plain, and rather basic built-in renderer). Since this is a snap, installing pandoc on host doesn't seem to help. Any guidance on how can I resolve this ? Should I consider installing Ghostwriter directly, i.e. not as a snap ? The main benefit of installing snap was to keep the KDE dependency baggage limited to the snap sandbox.
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Install ghostwriter as a traditional package instead.
sudo snap remove ghostwriter
sudo apt install ghostwriter
If you want to minimize the unnecessary KDE dependencies, use,
sudo apt install ghostwriter --no-install-recommends
If you want to integrate the ghostwriter snap with pandoc, you will have to write to the snap packager of ghostwriter so that they package pandoc with it.
If you want to avoid KDE dependencies, use Marker, a GTK based app similar to ghostwriter.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/marker
sudo apt update
sudo apt install marker
Another non-KDE alternative is Joplin, which supports syncing your notes for free with dropbox and onedrive.
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/dev/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash
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