--- title: Install BusyMark on Kubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of BusyMark for on Kubuntu - Markdown, Writerside, and Nextcloud Notes editor with Git, diagrams, OpenAPI, and MathJax. url: https://snapcraft.io/install/busymark/kubuntu --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install BusyMark on **Kubuntu** # BusyMark [BusyStack](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/busystack "View all snaps from BusyStack") * [BusyStack](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/busystack "View all snaps from BusyStack") * [Education](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=education) * [Productivity](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=productivity) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/busymark/kubuntu#install) #### Markdown, Writerside, and Nextcloud Notes editor with Git, diagrams, OpenAPI, and MathJax. **Features** * **Markdown editing** — Source, Editor, Reading, and Split views with formatting tools, syntax highlighting, code folding, tables, images, links, code blocks, callouts, collapsible content, and document diagnostics. * **Writerside projects** — Open and create Writerside-compatible projects; edit Markdown and XML topics; manage instances, tables of contents, reusable TOC libraries, and project structure. * **Nextcloud Notes** — Connect to a Nextcloud server, create and edit notes offline, synchronize changes, search and filter notes, manage categories and favorites, and work with attachments. * **Navigation and search** — Files, Topics, and Outline views, tabbed documents, command palette, keyboard shortcuts, document search and replace, reviewed replacement across local workspaces, and Markdown TOC generation. * **Technical documentation** — Local rendering of Mermaid, PlantUML, D2, fenced OpenAPI specifications, and MathJax mathematical expressions. * **PDF and HTML publishing** — Export Markdown documents and Writerside instances to configurable PDF or portable offline HTML, with controls for layout, typography, tables of contents, heading numbering, and HTML styling. * **Git integration for local workspaces** — Review changes and diffs, stage and unstage files, commit, create and switch branches, fetch, pull, push, inspect file and project history, compare historical versions, and restore earlier file versions. * **Clipboard and Local History** — Reuse source, rich-text, and image fragments during the current session; compare and restore persistent on-device document revisions independently of Git. * **AI-assisted editing** — Optional Ollama, OpenAI, and Gemini integration with explicit edit scope and shared context, proposal review before changes are applied, and AI-assisted Git commit-message drafting. * **Workspace reliability** — Detect files changed outside BusyMark, recover unsaved documents, restore previous workspace sessions, manage remote-image permissions, and protect Git operations behind workspace trust. **Diagrams and mathematics** BusyMark renders Mermaid, PlantUML, D2, and fenced OpenAPI content locally. Mathematical expressions are rendered with the bundled MathJax environment. **Git** * Detect or initialize repositories. * Stage, unstage, roll back, and discard changes. * Commit selected changes. * Fetch, fast-forward-only pull, push, and set an upstream. * Create and switch branches. * Browse project history and per-file history. * Inspect commit details and changed files. * Restore a file from an earlier commit. * Draft commit messages using AI. **Export** BusyMark can export the current Markdown document (including a Nextcloud note) or a Writerside instance to PDF and portable offline HTML. PDF export supports configurable paper size, orientation, margins, typography, headers and footers, page numbering, table of contents, and heading numbering. **AI editing** AI-assisted editing is optional and disabled by default. BusyMark supports Ollama, OpenAI, and Google Gemini. Proposed edits are presented for review before changes are applied. ### Package name * busymark --- ### License * Apache-2.0 --- ### Last updated * 15 October 2026 - latest/beta --- ### Websites * [busystack.org](https://busystack.org/ "https://busystack.org/") --- ### Source code * [github.com/busystack/busymark/](https://github.com/busystack/busymark/ "https://github.com/busystack/busymark/") --- ### Report a bug * [github.com/busystack/busymark/issues](https://github.com/busystack/busymark/issues "https://github.com/busystack/busymark/issues") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/busymark/kubuntu#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Kubuntu and install BusyMark Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd If you’re running [Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://kubuntu.org/) or later, including [Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu) and [Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go. Versions of Kubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14-04-lts) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10) don’t include *snap* by default, but *snap* can be installed from the command line as follows: ``` sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd ``` ### Install BusyMark To install BusyMark, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install busymark --beta ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit [snapcraft.io](https://snapcraft.io/) now. 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