[bilee]

Installed Calibre from binary:

sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()"

install directory= /opt/calibre

launch applications/office/calibre;
"Choose a location for ebook library";
I select a folder; click open;
Calibre closes....
Kindle is attached;

name@name:~$ calibre-debug -d
USB devices on system: [(7531, 2, 518), (6473, 4, 256), (7531, 1, 518), (1118, 9, 8198), (7531, 1, 518), (7531, 1, 518)]
Looking for PRS500
Looking for PRS505
Looking for PRS700
Looking for CYBOOKG3
Looking for KINDLE
Looking for KINDLE2
Looking for BLACKBERRY

name@name:~$ calibre-debug -g
link  hasn't been detected!
link  hasn't been detected!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre-debug", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('calibre==0.4.143', 'console_scripts', 'calibre-debug')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/debug.py", line 120, in main
    main(['calibre'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 1582, in main
    main = Main(single_instance, opts, actions)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 169, in __init__
    self.do_default_sync(sm.actions()[-1].isChecked())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 390, in do_default_sync
    config.set('send_to_storage_card_by_default', bool(checked))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/utils/config.py", line 478, in set
    return self.__config.set(key, val) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/utils/config.py", line 417, in set
    with ExclusiveFile(self.config_file_path) as f:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/utils/lock.py", line 23, in __enter__
    self.file  = open(self.path, 'a+b')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/thor/.config/calibre/gui.py'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 38, in apport_excepthook
    from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
ImportError: No module named apport.packaging_impl

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/calibre/gui2/update.py", line 26, in run
    traceback.print_exc()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'print_exc'

Love the app. Works fine on XP. Trying to build Ubu content server....