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Originally Posted by kiwidude
So Kovid - I know you love to slag off MS over their installers (I'm neutral, they don't bother me that much) - but surely Linux isn't exactly paving the way of "how things should be done"? I mean, every day there are posts from people saying how their xyz distro version of Calibre doesn't work, and I've seen comments posted about how it is "impossible" to package Calibre in some Distros...  |
Maybe you could create a Calibre updater item in the Linux Systems Menu (I did it manually through the GUI). I simply pasted your command-line setup into a new Run in Terminal menu Item, added an Icon (I used the disk with the 3 Green Nodes).
Now I click, type in the sudo password, Enter Enter and fetch some coffee :
I assume you know how to get the installer to set this up programatically. No need for repositories.