calibre 0.8.51 for ubuntu 10.04

anishtain4 · 05-17-2012, 03:15 PM

I'm trying to have calibre 0.8.51 on my linux, unfortunately depository only install 0.6 and when I try to get it by the terminal page as:
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
after downloading 1583 bytes of it I get this error:

Code:

Downloaded 1583 bytes 
Checking downloaded file integrity... 
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 285, in main
  File "<string>", line 243, in download_and_extract
  File "<string>", line 228, in download_tarball
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[u'tar', u'tjf', '/tmp/tmpyr0pT_']' returned non-zero exit status 2

I've tried to redownload it and did it from other friends computer too, but I always get this same error. What should I do?

I also downloaded the .tar.bz2 but I couldn't figure out what to do with it? I couldn't find any setup.py file in that

theducks · 05-17-2012, 04:11 PM

The command line install works great on both
12.04 and 11.10

(both are 32 bit, Unity, and all recommended updates have been applied)

anishtain4 · 05-17-2012, 05:20 PM

Well mine is 10.04 32bit, gnome. is this the problem then?

mh445 · 05-17-2012, 05:30 PM

FYI: Ubuntu 12.04 installs Calibre 0.8.38 from repository.

PeterT · 05-17-2012, 06:05 PM

Just trying it in a newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit environment; no issues at all.

Spoiler:

Code:

petert@ubuntu:~$ sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"
[sudo] password for petert: 
Enter the installation directory for calibre [/opt]: 
Will download and install calibre-0.8.51-i686.tar.bz2 
                    Downloading calibre-0.8.51-i686.tar.bz2                     
100% [======================================================================]
                                                                                Downloaded 51329118 bytes 
Checking downloaded file integrity... 
tar: Record size = 8 blocks
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files... 
Creating symlinks...
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/fetch-ebook-metadata to /usr/bin/fetch-ebook-metadata
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrf2lrs to /usr/bin/lrf2lrs
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-convert to /usr/bin/ebook-convert
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-meta to /usr/bin/ebook-meta
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/pdfmanipulate to /usr/bin/pdfmanipulate
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrs2lrf to /usr/bin/lrs2lrf
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrfviewer to /usr/bin/lrfviewer
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre to /usr/bin/calibre
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/markdown-calibre to /usr/bin/markdown-calibre
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-debug to /usr/bin/calibre-debug
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-parallel to /usr/bin/calibre-parallel
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/web2disk to /usr/bin/web2disk
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-server to /usr/bin/calibre-server
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-customize to /usr/bin/calibre-customize
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-viewer to /usr/bin/ebook-viewer
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-smtp to /usr/bin/calibre-smtp
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/epub-fix to /usr/bin/epub-fix
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-device to /usr/bin/ebook-device
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibredb to /usr/bin/calibredb
Setting up bash completion...
Installing bash completion to /etc/bash_completion.d/calibre
Installing MAN pages...
	Installing MAN page for ebook-meta
	Installing MAN page for ebook-convert
	Installing MAN page for web2disk
	Installing MAN page for calibre-server
	Installing MAN page for lrf2lrs
	Installing MAN page for lrs2lrf
	Installing MAN page for calibre-debug
	Installing MAN page for calibredb
	Installing MAN page for calibre-customize
	Installing MAN page for pdfmanipulate
	Installing MAN page for fetch-ebook-metadata
	Installing MAN page for epub-fix
	Installing MAN page for calibre-smtp
Setting up desktop integration...


You can automate future calibre installs by specifying the
installation directory in the install command itself, like
this:

sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main(install_dir='/opt')"

Change /opt above to whatever directory you want calibre to be
automatically installed to
 

Run "calibre" to start calibre 
petert@ubuntu:~$

theducks · 05-17-2012, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mh445

FYI: Ubuntu 12.04 installs Calibre 0.8.38 from repository.

We know the repository is Morbid

ALWAYS use the command line install.

(did you get the hint

)

Never had a problem with the Gnome desktop (Calibre install AND / or general use

)

anishtain4 · 05-17-2012, 08:24 PM

Then what is my problem? I tried the same thing on my friends KDE 10.10 too and got the same error after downloading exactly 1583 bytes.

can you give me a hint on using the calibre-0.8.50-x86_64.tar.bz2 ?

theducks · 05-17-2012, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anishtain4

Then what is my problem? I tried the same thing on my friends KDE 10.10 too and got the same error after downloading exactly 1583 bytes.

can you give me a hint on using the calibre-0.8.50-x86_64.tar.bz2 ?

did you paste the entire line into the console?

Code:

sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"

PeterT · 05-17-2012, 09:24 PM

I think (s)he did... somehow looks like their download does not work properly. There is a thread on how to install manually, but something tells me this will not work for them either.

DiapDealer · 05-17-2012, 09:40 PM

Quote:

can you give me a hint on using the calibre-0.8.50-x86_64.tar.bz2 ?

My hint would be to not try using that particular package on a 32-bit version of Lucid Lynx.

PeterT · 05-17-2012, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

My hint would be to not try using that particular package on a 32-bit version of Lucid Lynx.

++1! (or is it 1++!)

anishtain4 · 05-18-2012, 03:30 PM

Sure ducks, it starts downloading and stops in the middle for the reason I can't figure out.

Guess it's not supposed for me to use calibre 0.8 in linux, evern manual installation gives this error:

/opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 1: ELF: not found
/opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Diap why is that so?

theducks · 05-18-2012, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anishtain4

Sure ducks, it starts downloading and stops in the middle for the reason I can't figure out.

Guess it's not supposed for me to use calibre 0.8 in linux, evern manual installation gives this error:

/opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 1: ELF: not found
/opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Diap why is that so?

There was a problem with the install for some (mine

) Ubuntu waaaay back (Calibre 7.x ?) that caused download failures. Kovid changed something to get around that problem.

BTW what language is your system set for?

DiapDealer · 05-18-2012, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anishtain4

/opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 1: ELF: not found
/opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Diap why is that so?

An ELF error (Executable and Linkable Format) usually means you're trying to execute a binary that's intended for a different architecture than your system has.

If you're using Ubuntu 10.04 (32-bit) and want to try the manual install, then you need to download and use the calibre-X.X.XX-i686.tar.bz2 package and not the calibre-X.X.XX-x86_64.tar.bz2 package (which is only for 64-bit OSs).

JSWolf · 05-18-2012, 09:48 PM

Is it me or does it seem that Linux has more issue then it's worth?

05-17-2012, 03:15 PM	#1
anishtain4 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	calibre 0.8.51 for ubuntu 10.04 I'm trying to have calibre 0.8.51 on my linux, unfortunately depository only install 0.6 and when I try to get it by the terminal page as: http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux after downloading 1583 bytes of it I get this error: Code: Downloaded 1583 bytes Checking downloaded file integrity... bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 285, in main File "<string>", line 243, in download_and_extract File "<string>", line 228, in download_tarball File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 511, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[u'tar', u'tjf', '/tmp/tmpyr0pT_']' returned non-zero exit status 2 I've tried to redownload it and did it from other friends computer too, but I always get this same error. What should I do? I also downloaded the .tar.bz2 but I couldn't figure out what to do with it? I couldn't find any setup.py file in that

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05-17-2012, 04:11 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,813 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	The command line install works great on both 12.04 and 11.10 (both are 32 bit, Unity, and all recommended updates have been applied)

05-17-2012, 05:20 PM	#3
anishtain4 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	Well mine is 10.04 32bit, gnome. is this the problem then?

05-17-2012, 05:30 PM	#4
mh445 Enthusiast Posts: 46 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: none	FYI: Ubuntu 12.04 installs Calibre 0.8.38 from repository.

05-17-2012, 08:24 PM	#7
anishtain4 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	Then what is my problem? I tried the same thing on my friends KDE 10.10 too and got the same error after downloading exactly 1583 bytes. can you give me a hint on using the calibre-0.8.50-x86_64.tar.bz2 ?

05-17-2012, 09:24 PM	#9
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,172 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	I think (s)he did... somehow looks like their download does not work properly. There is a thread on how to install manually, but something tells me this will not work for them either.

05-18-2012, 03:30 PM	#12
anishtain4 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	Sure ducks, it starts downloading and stops in the middle for the reason I can't figure out. Guess it's not supposed for me to use calibre 0.8 in linux, evern manual installation gives this error: /opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 1: ELF: not found /opt/calibre/bin/calibre_postinstall: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected Diap why is that so?

05-18-2012, 09:48 PM	#15
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