At 16:15:53 on Monday Monday 19 April 2010, Mark Goldstein
Stan,
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, 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. (There is no garbage removal function to junk pages when they are no longer functional.)
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.
Has anyone actually installed (from either binaries or source) it and got it to work? --
I have it installed in 11.1. I used http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/thomas-schraitle:/calib re/openSUSE_11.1 repository. This is not the latest version (0.6.21), but it works for me (I used only a couple of simple functions though).
You will also need to add http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt46/openSUSE_11.1/. I do not remember if some other repositories were needed. But in any case I´ve found all I needed in oS build service.
Regards, -- Mark Goldstein
Build Service speaks of installation into oS 11.2 only; I know that some
some packages don't distinguish between 11.1 and 11.2, but that isn't a
good bet. So I added the two specified repos and tried to install from
YaST.
Trying to load Calibre afterward caused the cursor to bounce for quite a
while, which was encouraging, but after a time that stopped without ever
displaying anything, so clearly something is missing.
There is a note in the Build Service page about the program, in which a
user says that he installed Calibre "easily" (my quotes) by "using the
line: