Error in latest binary installer

[erayd]

Hi guys,

When trying to install using the latest binary (on debian lenny 64bit) it dies with the following error. Any idea how I can get past this?

[...]
Creating /usr/bin/ebook-viewer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 327, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 293, in main
  File "<string>", line 248, in do_postinstall
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 444, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1147, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Note that this is a headless server - so almost anything GUI-related is missing. I have previously installed calibre on this box using the easy_install method, but that no longer works.

Cheers,
Erayd

[kovidgoyal]

This is the post install stage so most things should work even if it fails.

[erayd]

Except that they don't. Trying to run any of the standard utilities results in this error:

osiris:/opt/calibre# ./html2lrf --help
-bash: ./html2lrf: No such file or directory

osiris:/opt/calibre# ./mobi2lrf --help
-bash: ./mobi2lrf: No such file or directory

osiris:/opt/calibre# ./lit2lrf --help
-bash: ./lit2lrf: No such file or directory

Thanks for such a prompt reply - that was *very* quick!

[kovidgoyal]

That menas there was an error earlier in the install process. do you have the full log?

[erayd]

Assuming you mean the full installer output, here it is. If you're referring to a separate logfile, where is this located?

Cheers,
Erayd

osiris:/# 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...
Extracting application files...
Creating /usr/bin/calibre-parallel
Creating /usr/bin/prs500
Creating /usr/bin/lrf-meta
Creating /usr/bin/rtf-meta
Creating /usr/bin/pdf-meta
Creating /usr/bin/lit-meta
Creating /usr/bin/imp-meta
Creating /usr/bin/rb-meta
Creating /usr/bin/opf-meta
Creating /usr/bin/odt-meta
Creating /usr/bin/epub-meta
Creating /usr/bin/txt2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/html2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/html2oeb
Creating /usr/bin/html2epub
Creating /usr/bin/odt2oeb
Creating /usr/bin/markdown-calibre
Creating /usr/bin/lit2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/epub2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/rtf2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/web2disk
Creating /usr/bin/feeds2disk
Creating /usr/bin/calibre-server
Creating /usr/bin/feeds2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/feeds2epub
Creating /usr/bin/web2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/pdf2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/mobi2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/fb22lrf
Creating /usr/bin/fb2-meta
Creating /usr/bin/any2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/any2epub
Creating /usr/bin/lrf2lrs
Creating /usr/bin/lrs2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/pdfreflow
Creating /usr/bin/isbndb
Creating /usr/bin/librarything
Creating /usr/bin/mobi2oeb
Creating /usr/bin/lrf2html
Creating /usr/bin/lit2oeb
Creating /usr/bin/comic2lrf
Creating /usr/bin/comic2epub
Creating /usr/bin/calibre-debug
Creating /usr/bin/calibredb
Creating /usr/bin/calibre-fontconfig
Creating /usr/bin/calibre-parallel
Creating /usr/bin/calibre
Creating /usr/bin/lrfviewer
Creating /usr/bin/ebook-viewer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 327, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 293, in main
  File "<string>", line 248, in do_postinstall
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 444, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1147, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
osiris:/#

[kovidgoyal]

what does /usr/bin/calibre-debug give you

[erayd]

It gives me this:

osiris:/# /usr/bin/calibre-debug
/usr/bin/calibre-debug: line 6: ./calibre-debug: No such file or directory

Running it from /opt/calibre gives this:

osiris:/# /opt/calibre/calibre-debug
-bash: /opt/calibre/calibre-debug: No such file or directory

[kovidgoyal]

ls -l /opt/calibre

[erayd]

osiris:/# ls -l /opt/calibre/
total 49596
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   38454 2008-11-07 06:58 any2epub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   38857 2008-11-07 06:58 any2lrf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users   13310 2008-11-06 10:46 archive
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   32312 2008-11-06 11:36 array.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   16752 2008-11-06 11:36 binascii.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users    7392 2008-11-06 11:36 _bisect.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   75680 2008-11-06 11:36 _bsddb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   28264 2008-11-06 11:36 bz2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   50412 2008-11-14 15:46 calibre
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   42368 2008-11-14 15:46 calibredb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   38173 2008-11-07 06:58 calibre-debug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   40496 2008-11-07 06:58 calibre-fontconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   45479 2008-11-07 09:43 calibre-parallel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   42637 2008-11-11 13:15 calibre_postinstall
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   41519 2008-11-14 15:46 calibre-server
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  127384 2008-11-06 11:36 _codecs_cn.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  138936 2008-11-06 11:36 _codecs_hk.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   15192 2008-11-06 11:36 _codecs_iso2022.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  223160 2008-11-06 11:36 _codecs_jp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  118712 2008-11-06 11:36 _codecs_kr.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   94680 2008-11-06 11:36 _codecs_tw.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   20936 2008-11-06 11:36 collections.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37004 2008-11-07 06:58 comic2epub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   42155 2008-11-07 06:58 comic2lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   61692 2008-11-06 11:36 cPickle.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   13152 2008-11-06 11:36 cStringIO.so
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  123928 2008-11-06 11:36 _dbus_bindings.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   42455 2008-11-07 06:58 ebook-viewer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37697 2008-11-07 06:58 epub2lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   39461 2008-11-07 06:58 epub-meta
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   38302 2008-11-11 13:15 fb22lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37620 2008-11-07 06:58 fb2-meta
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   13360 2008-11-06 11:36 fcntl.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   39454 2008-11-07 06:58 feeds2disk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37596 2008-11-07 06:58 feeds2epub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37555 2008-11-07 06:58 feeds2lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users    6600 2008-11-06 11:36 _functools.so
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   11216 2008-11-06 11:36 _hashlib.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   16624 2008-11-06 11:36 _heapq.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   40837 2008-11-14 15:46 html2epub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   56933 2008-11-07 06:58 html2lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   48423 2008-11-11 13:15 html2oeb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   11108 2008-11-06 11:36 _imagingft.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37494 2008-11-07 06:58 imp-meta
drwxr-xr-x 6 root users    4568 2008-11-14 15:46 IPython
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   38587 2008-11-07 06:58 isbndb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   29656 2008-11-06 11:36 itertools.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users   17319 2008-11-07 06:48 iu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   66680 2008-11-06 11:36 libbz2.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  205580 2008-11-06 11:36 libdbus-1.so.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   66256 2008-11-06 11:36 libexslt.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  382040 2008-11-06 11:36 libmng.so.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 1712256 2008-11-06 11:36 libpoppler.so.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 1135104 2008-11-06 11:36 libpython2.5.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 2244836 2008-11-06 11:36 libQtCore.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 9268888 2008-11-06 11:36 libQtGui.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 1029288 2008-11-06 11:36 libQtNetwork.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  311092 2008-11-06 11:36 libQtSvg.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 9542900 2008-11-06 11:36 libQtWebKit.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  279600 2008-11-06 11:36 libQtXml.so.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 6550997 2008-11-14 15:46 library.pyz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37829 2008-11-07 06:58 librarything
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  376456 2008-11-06 11:36 libsqlite3.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  204804 2008-11-06 11:36 libunrar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users     322 2008-08-05 05:28 libusb.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 1145936 2008-11-06 11:36 libxml2.so.2
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37849 2008-11-07 06:58 lit2lrf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   44763 2008-11-07 06:58 lit2oeb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   37463 2008-11-07 06:58 lit-meta
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   43242 2008-11-14 15:46 lrf-meta
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   40395 2008-11-07 06:58 lrfviewer
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root users     509 2008-11-14 15:46 manifest
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root users       7 2008-11-14 15:46 version
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   41977 2008-11-07 09:43 web2disk
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users  152628 2008-11-06 11:36 xml.parsers.pyexpat.so
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users   21536 2008-11-06 11:36 zlib.so
osiris:/#

[kovidgoyal]

cat /usr/bin/calibre-debug

[erayd]

osiris:/# cat /usr/bin/calibre-debug
#!/bin/bash
frozen_path=/opt/calibre
export ORIGWD=`pwd`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$frozen_path:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
cd $frozen_path
./calibre-debug "$@"
osiris:/#

[kovidgoyal]

ok i'm stumped that doesn't make any sense

[erayd]

Yep.... I'm stumped too. Is there anything I can try that would help solve this? I'm not sure whether it's an issue with my system or with the installer. The current mess occurred after trying to install the latest version via the binary installer. The previous version on the system was pre-epub, and was installed via easy_install-2.5. As I couldn't find an uninstaller for this, I just let the new calibre installer steamroll whatever else was in the way - could this be part of the problem?

Another thought - is it looking for GUI libraries or something that don't exist?

[kovidgoyal]

No a previous installation shouldn't matter. According to that error message it's failing to find a file that exists, which should be impossible

[erayd]

It is? My understanding of that error is that the named file is generating the "No such file or directory" message, but isn't saying which file it failed to find. That's the way bash usually handles such things iirc, although I could be wrong.