At 13:35:30 on Thursday Thursday 22 April 2010, Thomas Schraitle
Hi,
interesting, I totally missed this thread. So jumping in a bit late.
On Monday 19 April 2010 Stan Goodman wrote:
I would like to install this application on oS 11.1. There is a page that claims to enable this:
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/
and speaks highly of Calibre, but clicking on the "Download" button discloses that it has been removed.
Yes, that was me. ;)
Hi.
I had to remove the one-click installation from my repository as I had moved to a different location. Now I try to improve the RPM package, but it takes time. So this is currently work in progress.
The web is filled with articles about problems encountered in installing Calibre, which is unfortunate, because the salesman-talk about it is really top notch.
The content of the above link still applies. The problem with Calibre is, it takes a lot of dependencies and if you catch a different version by accident it might not work. Although I tried to cover most of it in the RPM ("version X must greater than 1.1.3") it is no guarantee.
Has anyone actually installed (from either binaries or source) it and got it to work?
Yes, me. :)
And now, so have I, under the prodding of John Anderson. After having no luck with installation from the Calibre repo (despite following the procedure followed successfully by Mark Goldstein), apparently because the repo had become SNAFUed, I tried the binary installation described on the Calibre website. This succeeded without any difficulty. Interestingly, Mark then tried it and found that it wouldn't work for him. Apparently, installation of this app depends heavily on phases of the moon, karma, and one's individual DNA. I am looking forward to using Calibre for reading free ebooks in Linux natively. Unfortunately, for reading purchased ones, I still have to use Kindle for PC, in the Windows virtual machine. Why Kindle and not one of the other booksellers> Amazon sells me books for which every other vendor I have tried can only tell me "This item cannot be shipped to your country". Why a John Grisham novel or other New York times Best Seller should not be shipped anywhere on the planet is left uexplained, but apparently Amazon doesn't understand it either. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org