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Daniel_09 · 07-21-2012, 09:16 AM

That's interesting. I wanted to install Calibre into "/opt/Calibre". However, the installer wrote all files into my home folder.

It seems that the installer takes the home directory if it has no root access.

Edit: Oh, I just saw that the command on the Calibre page is with sudo.

07-21-2012, 09:16 AM	#4
Daniel_09 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Switzerland Device: Kindle 3	That's interesting. I wanted to install Calibre into "/opt/Calibre". However, the installer wrote all files into my home folder. It seems that the installer takes the home directory if it has no root access. Edit: Oh, I just saw that the command on the Calibre page is with sudo. Last edited by Daniel_09; 07-21-2012 at 09:20 AM.