ubuntu install fail error shown wired

[fone4u]

HI, I tried to install calibre on ubuntu 8.10.
first I tried

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 easy_install -U calibre

I also installed python-qt4-dev

however,
when I do

sudo calibre_postinstall


I got the following error:

calibre_postinstall
Trying to setup udev rules...
* Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
Setting up bash completion...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/calibre_postinstall", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('calibre==0.4.133', 'console_scripts', 'calibre_postinstall')()
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 466, in post_install
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 222, in setup_completion
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 124, in opts_and_exts
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 83, in options
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_any.py", line 191, in option_parser
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting


Then I want to install it from source. it still not working.

when i do
sudo python setup.py build

I got this error.


Setup calibre version: 0.4.133
running build
running resources
Resources are up to date
running translations
Translations up to date
running gui
Compiling images...
error: No such file or directory


I did install python-qt4-dev from apt-get.

so can anyone help me figure out what happening?

Thanks a lot. Stev

[kovidgoyal]

Use the binary installer

[fone4u]

thanks for the reply. but by using the binary installer I still have the same error:

(synaptic:30079): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_view_unref_tree_helper: assertion `node != NULL' failed
ning@t60-ub:/usr/bin$ 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...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 45, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 496, in binary_install
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 466, in post_install
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 222, in setup_completion
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 124, in opts_and_exts
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 83, in options
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/epub/from_any.py", line 191, in option_parser
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
Segmentation fault

[kovidgoyal]

AH this is caused bya bug in the CHinese translation

Try the following

export LANG=en_US
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Then run the installer. Once installed it should work fine with the CHinese translation.