How to install Sweet Home 3D 5.4 Released on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 via PPA

   Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.  The latest Sweet Home 3D 5.4 was released on January 31, 2017 with various improvements and corrections.

Sweet Home 3D 5.4 Changelog:

•     Set the minimum value of visitor's field of view to 2°.
•     Fixed wrongly displayed rectangular textures when rotated.
•     Fixed a bug that prevented to close the Untitled window after opening a file under Mac OS X.
•     Fixed a bug that applied the resolution scale factor too many times on user interface.
•     Fixed a bug that prevented to move the points of a polyline.
•     Replaced JRE 8u112 by JRE 8u121 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Linux.
•     Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Installation instructions:

   The GetDeb repository contains the latest packages of Sweet Home 3D, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and derivatives.

Opening terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running the command:

Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install sweethome3d

Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu yakkety-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install sweethome3d

 Uninstall:

    To remove Sweet Home 3D, simply run apt remove command with sudo:

$ sudo apt-get remove sweethome3d $ sudo apt-get autoremove

And you can remove the getdeb repository via Software & Updates utility under Other Software tab.