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kovidgoyal · 01-03-2007, 03:31 PM

After nearly two months of development, libprs500 is nearly ready to hit 0.3.0 with its shiny new GUI. All that remains is bug testing.

Screenshots, installation and usage instructions can be found at https://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net

If you succeed in installing and running libprs500 on platforms other than Linux, please let me know, preferably with installation instructions that I can add to the wiki. I have already had reports of it working on Intel based OSX and WinXP.

Please test it and if you find bugs open a ticket at
https://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net/newticket

For those of you who have installed a previous version of libprs500 and used the GUI, you will have to delete the file ~/library.db as the database format has changed. This will remove all books from the library, so if you need to preserve the database, let me know and I'll send you a script to do the trick. Hopefully, there wont be anymore database changes from now on.

01-03-2007, 03:31 PM	#67
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,927 Karma: 22669820 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	call for testers After nearly two months of development, libprs500 is nearly ready to hit 0.3.0 with its shiny new GUI. All that remains is bug testing. Screenshots, installation and usage instructions can be found at https://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net If you succeed in installing and running libprs500 on platforms other than Linux, please let me know, preferably with installation instructions that I can add to the wiki. I have already had reports of it working on Intel based OSX and WinXP. Please test it and if you find bugs open a ticket at https://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net/newticket For those of you who have installed a previous version of libprs500 and used the GUI, you will have to delete the file ~/library.db as the database format has changed. This will remove all books from the library, so if you need to preserve the database, let me know and I'll send you a script to do the trick. Hopefully, there wont be anymore database changes from now on.