[ubuntu-za] Unmet libzip1 dependency when installing Kobo reader

[Hilton Gibson]

Have you thought of: http://calibre-ebook.com/

It's available in the software center.


On 12 March 2013 11:52, Robin Bownes <robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Hope that someone out there has an answer to this problem.
>
> I've recently started using Kobo reader on my Android phone. Wanting to be
> able to access my books on my notebook, to assist study, I discovered, and
> downloaded an Ubuntu version of the Kobo reader (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/*
> *2183775/kobo-desktop.deb<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2183775/kobo-desktop.deb>).
> However, on attempting to install the reader, I got a missing dependency
> message for libzip1.
>
> Through fairly extensive Googling, I've discovered that libzip1 no longer
> exists in 12.04 (32 bit), which I'm running, having been replaced by
> libzip2. Unfortunately this does not help me to install the reader.
>
> Is there a way to install libzip1? Is there a way to modify the dependency
> to use libzip2? Is there some other solution that I've not even thought of?
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robin
>
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