Trelby

Verdict: Trelby is currently the best free screenwriting software on the market. Moreover, it is the only free option with an open-source code. If you’re unfamiliar with what that means, “open-source” implies the software isn’t protected by copyright, allowing any user to freely change and improve it. Trelby: Write Screenplays for Free on Windows. Trelby is a fast, simple, and clean piece of screenwriting software capable of formatting professional scripts. Best of all, it's completely free and works on both Windows and Linux machines. Unfortunately, Trelby isn't available for Mac.

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In this tutorial let us learn how to install Trelby 2.3-dev on Linux Mint 19.2

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Trelby is a screenwriting application that can also be used to write comic scripts, video scripts etc. Trelby is multiplatform, feature-rich and open-source application.

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Please, note that Trelby is not under development and the current version 2.3-dev is quite old. But, we found it very intuitive and efficient.

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The Debian package for Trelby 2.2 on the download page is not compatible for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and other Linux distros based on Ubuntu 18.04 or up.

The reason for this is an unmet dependency python-wxgtk2.8. The python-wxgtk2.8 package is not in ubuntu’s repository and so the .deb installer won’t work on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

The following steps will install the current development version of the Trelby.

  1. Install the python-lxml and python-wxgtk3.0 from the respository:

  2. Download the Zip from the Trelby’s repository on github and extract the downloaded folder.

  3. Navigate to the extracted folder and open up a new terminal and enter the following command:
  4. Navigate to the Applications folder using the following command:
  5. Create a new file named trelby.desktop using:
  6. Paste the following code:

  7. Press ctrl+x and then y to save the file.

  8. Change the file to an executable using:

Now, we have a successful installation of Trelby and we can launch the application.