There are a variety of reasons why you might want to do this, including an inability to get your book published by a conventional publisher; your desire to have total control over all aspects of publication, marketing, sales, and distribution; and your unwillingness to give up the lion's ...
If it works with your distribution (it has been tested on Ubuntu, Fedora, Gnome and Mint), the recommended way is to use this script as it will handle the desktop icon too: wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/master/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash...