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lena_punkt · 09-09-2010, 03:58 AM

Okay, I first thought it would really be simple, but it isn't: At least with Gentoo, calibre wants X and Qt4 to be installed, but I do not have any reason for having X and Qt4 installed (not even space for it).

Is it possible to get rss-download-functionality without installing X or Qt4? Does anybody have calibre installed without X? If so, I would try to tune the ebuilds (Gentoos installation scripts) to force install without X, but it means half a day of work I suppose (because i'm not familiar with the scripts), so I don't want to try it without knowing it could work...

EDIT: Trying to install calibre says 350MiBytes of downloads, where 80% is X and Qt4.

09-09-2010, 03:58 AM	#5
lena_punkt Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: N516 (OpenInkpot)	Okay, I first thought it would really be simple, but it isn't: At least with Gentoo, calibre wants X and Qt4 to be installed, but I do not have any reason for having X and Qt4 installed (not even space for it). Is it possible to get rss-download-functionality without installing X or Qt4? Does anybody have calibre installed without X? If so, I would try to tune the ebuilds (Gentoos installation scripts) to force install without X, but it means half a day of work I suppose (because i'm not familiar with the scripts), so I don't want to try it without knowing it could work... EDIT: Trying to install calibre says 350MiBytes of downloads, where 80% is X and Qt4. Last edited by lena_punkt; 09-09-2010 at 04:10 AM.