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Sigh. The vast majority of software in a linux distribution is slow moving and has a relatively small number of slow moving dependencies.
The typical linux package management infrastructure is well suited to managing this kind of software.
calibre is both extremely fast moving and relies on cutting edge functionality from several dependencies. Package management simply cannot keep up. That is why I provide an "application bundle" version of calibre with all needed dependencies. The number of tickets that I have to waste my time with from linux users using distro provided packages is ridiculous given that only 5% of calibre users use linux. Hence my standard policy of closing all such tickets with the recommendation to install the official calibre binary.
Don't get me wrong, central package management is great, when it works, it just doesn't work for calibre. If you want to help with calibre packaging, I suggest you work on the official installer, add an uninstaller if you feel like that's what you want.
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