12-28-2008, 11:24 PM | #1 |
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downloading calibre in ubuntu hardy
Hi,
I have calibre downloaded on my windows drive with no problems and enjoy using it. So I thought I would download it on my ubuntu drive as well even though that involved "using the command line" rather than add/remove or synaptic. command line still equals very scary. first I tried the ubuntu intrepid commands & got this - elizabeth@elizabeth-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-imaging libqt4-core libqt4-gui \ python-qt4 python-mechanize imagemagick \ xdg-utils python-dbus python-lxml python-beautifulsoup \ help2man [sudo] password for elizabeth: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done python-imaging is already the newest version. python-imaging set to manually installed. E: Couldn't find package python-qt4 so I read through various threads here and saw where someone recommend using the binary commands, so I did that & got this elizabeth@elizabeth-desktop:~$ sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux_binary_installer').read(); main()" Enter the installation directory for calibre (Its contents will be deleted!)[/opt/calibre]: Downloading calibre... 100% [================================================== ================================================== ===============================] Extracting files to /opt/calibre ... Extracting application files... Creating symlinks... Trying to setup udev rules... * Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ] Setting up bash completion... done Setting up desktop integration... Installing MAN pages... Installing MAN page for lrf-meta Failed to install MAN pages as help2man is missing from your system elizabeth@elizabeth-desktop:~$ calibre appears to be installed on my ubuntu system but I haven't done anything but open it yet. is the missing help2man and/or MAN pages important? do I need to install it somehow? do I need to redo this all somehow? thanks, newbie ubuntu user Beth p.s - in windows xp, sony reader has you eject the reader. do I have to unmount it when I use the reader with calibre on either the ubuntu or the xp side? |
12-29-2008, 12:56 AM | #2 |
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You can ignore the missing man pages. You dont need to eject the reader, though unmounting it is recommended to prevent damage.
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