[portablejim]

Originally Posted by george.talusan

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2183775/kobo-desktop.deb for the Touch compatible desktop

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2183775/kobo-desktop-older.deb for the original Kobo and Kobo Wifi compatible desktop.

The two will hopefully be merged into one awesome release real soon now.

For those with a 64-bit installation, you may need to get libzip as a 32-bit library.

For those on Debian based (64-bit) distributions (e.g. Ubuntu):
First you need ia32-libs

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Install the downloaded package with

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i kobo-desktop.deb

Install getlibs by getting the latest from http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/ and installing
then install the needed libraries (in this case libzip)

getlibs -p libzip1

The software can now be launched from /usr/bin/Kobo with

Kobo