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03-07-2014, 12:23 PM | #1 |
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Are there problems with switching to default install directory on linux?
I run Linux Mint 16 using Calibre.
For a while now I've used my own script to update calibre. Code:
#/bin/sh killall calibre 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='/home/seth/calibre-prog')" If I just downloaded the installer and ran it would it be a clean install and know nothing of my databases? Any advantages to using it the default way? thanks! |
03-07-2014, 02:13 PM | #2 |
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calibre settings are kept in the config directory ("$HOME/.config/calibre"). It doesn't matter where you install the program binaries, $CALIBRE_CONFIG will still be set to that by default. Although storing them in /opt is less messy than having them in your home directory, I'd think....
Why are you storing root-owned files in your home folder anyway?? The only reason I keep my calibre binaries in my home directory is because I am a non-root user on a school computer system. |
03-08-2014, 09:48 AM | #3 |
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I didn't have a /opt directory and I didn't want to create one just for Calibre. Silly I know. Also I didn't know there was a config file in my home directory. If I was doing a clean install of Linux i wipe everything but my home directory.
thanks for the info! |
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