Ebook Reader for Ubuntu

[Jack Wallen]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:16:43 +0200
Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 22:42, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
> >
> 
> That is a very outdated version. Install the latest 0.7.42 with this
> one-liner: sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec
> urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read();
> main()"
> 
> That is taken right from the Calibre site:
> http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

Dotan is right. And if you use the outdated version the convert to PDF
is broken. Although the conversion will happen, you will always wind up
with 0 Byte PDFS.

jack

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