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

[Hilton Gibson]

"Am I just missing something, or is there a way to link Calibre to my
online bookstore accounts?" If you use Google Chrome, there may be an
extension that does that??


On 12 March 2013 16:25, Robin Bownes <robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:

>
> On 03/12/2013 01:06 PM, Hilton Gibson wrote:
>
> 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). 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 exists in 12.04 (32 bit), which I'm running, having been replaced by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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> Hi Hilton (& Graham, who suggested the same thing)
>
> I have installed Calibre, and don't get me wrong, it looks like a great
> reader. From the looks of things, I can download/install/convert books
> within Calibre, from multiple sources, and can even transfer them to my
> reader device, but that seems to be as far as it goes. The problem for me
> is that I cannot see any way to get it to interact with Kobo and/or Amazon
> accounts in order to track my library and progress within individual books.
> Am I just missing something, or is there a way to link Calibre to my online
> bookstore accounts?
>
> Robin
>
>
>
> Is there
>



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*Hilton Gibson*
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Stellenbosch University
Private Bag X5036
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