Hi butitsmyname
I am using Mint Linux Julia, that I believe is based on Ubuntu 10.10. This has been my distro of choice for quite a long time. Before that I was using FreeBSD (since 4.8) and PC-BSD. One of several reasons I choose Mint Linux is that it is basically Ubuntu with a little bit tweaked UI and some non-free packages installed by default. I like "start menu" at the lower left corner and other numerous tweaks. But the was majority of packages is identical.
I have installed Julia quite recently and Calibre installation went without a hitch.
In previous distribution I have installed Calibre from packages, just to make sure all dependencies are resolved before I install binary version from Calibre site. This time (when I installed Julia) I didn't do that. I went to
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
and copied and pasted command to the terminal window:
Code:
sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()"
That did the trick.
I have updated Calibre several times since than, always by running the above line.
It asks for default install directory, I accept the default and wait for install to complete. Newer had problem with that.
I will try to have a look at your error logs ...
Stay tuned, I am pretty sure that together with this wonderful community we can help you.