installing calibre on JJ: Help!

[Bierius]

When I try to install Calibre (using the steps shown on the download page) on my system running Ubuntu JJ I get this error message:

calibre-0.5.11/pyqtdistutils.py", line 14, in <module>
import sipconfig, os, sys, string, glob, shutil
ImportError: No module named sipconfig

Can anyone point out what the problem is?

Cheers,

[kovidgoyal]

ubuntu jj has a calibre package in its repository, use that

[Bierius]

Excellent! Thanks

[BKR]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Calibre on Fedora 10 (already searched the fedora & rpm fusion repo's...not there), I keep getting this: File "setup.py", line 50, in <module>
from pyqtdistutils import PyQtExtension, build_ext, Extension
File "/home/bob/src/calibre-0.5.14/pyqtdistutils.py", line 14, in <module>
import sipconfig, os, sys, string, glob, shutil
ImportError: No module named sipconfig. Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

[netseeker]

Make sure that python-sip4 as well as python-sip4-dev are installed (beside the dependencies listed on the calibre linux download page).

[BKR]

Originally Posted by netseeker

Make sure that python-sip4 as well as python-sip4-dev are installed (beside the dependencies listed on the calibre linux download page).

Thank you for the help, but it did not work - this is what I get:
sudo yum install python-sip4 python-sip4-dev
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree | 2.7 kB 00:00
updates | 3.0 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package python-sip4 available.
No package python-sip4-dev available.
Nothing to do

[netseeker]

In fedora it should be just
yum install sip
yum install sip-devel
if python is already installed. And i'm not sure if sip-devel is really required.

In Ubuntu JJ the packages are called sip4, python-sip4 and python-sip4-dev.

[BKR]

(have to sudo or su install) I have installed sip.i386, no package sip-dev avail. Ran update of PyQt4, then I got a new error: "you do not have pyrcc4 in your path. Install PyQt4 dev tools" - Done.
Re-booted and tried again..Now after I run python setup.py build && sudo python setup.py install, I get this: building 'calibre.plugins.pictureflow' extension
qmake -o Makefile.qt pictureflow.pro
unable to execute qmake: No such file or directory
error: command 'qmake' failed with exit status 1. Hmm - not sure why all the problems with this install, Calibre installed perfectly the last time I had it on this computer. I certainly appreciate the help you have been giving me.

[BKR]

found this link http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ticket/2571 (reopened) - will give a try.


O.K. at this point I have upgraded to Fedora 11, confirmed all dependencies, installed sip-devel, wget, PyQt4, PyQt4-devel, python-setuptools.noarch, python.setuptools-devel.noarch.

..and now this - gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -Isrc/calibre/utils/lzx -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c src/calibre/utils/lzx/lzxmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/src/calibre/utils/lzx/lzxmodule.o
unable to execute gcc: No such file or directory
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1.

Not sure what else to do or try, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[BKR]

OK this is weird, I have reinstalled fedora 10 and just when I thought I would have to look for another e-book manager, I decided to give calibre one last shot. I used the binary installer and it installed successfully Well I'm so glad calibre is working great now, but after all of this I must say I hate software (sometimes).

[netseeker]

BKR, i'm glad that it's finally working for you.

[Sabardeyn]

Shoot, I don't remember the other topic name, but Kovid did just mention that one of the older (pre v0.6) installation methods has been discontinued.