Ebook Reader for Ubuntu

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 26 20:42:27 UTC 2011


On 01/26/2011 10:42 AM, Eric Morey wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:50 -0600, Richard Atcheson wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 January 2011 13:14:40 Mark C. Miller wrote:
>> > Is there a reader program for Ubuntu? 
>> Mark:
>> Yes, there are at least two of 'em.  Firefox has an ereader plugin which is 
>> nice, but you cant beat Calibre which is a library manager and viewer!  You 
>> can find it here:
>> 
>> http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for this info. It seems to be licensed under the GPLv3. Though
> I'm a bit disappointed that it is not available in a repository, it
> seems easy enough to install. 

It's in the universe repository:
$ apt-cache policy calibre
calibre:
  Installed: 0.7.18+dfsg-1
  Candidate: 0.7.18+dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.18+dfsg-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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