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impert · 12-14-2012, 07:36 AM

There is an easier way!

I wasted several hours trying to get kobo-desktop to run first on a Mac PPC, then on my 64 bit machine. (Multi booting GNU/Linux) Finally succeeded with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, only to find that there is a much simpler way which should work on any Linux, BSD, or OS/X machine. It comes from Antoine Amarilli, to whom I am very grateful. His blog is at:
http://a3nm.net/blog/fnacbook_kobo_hacking.html

Plug the device in and mount it if it doesn't auto-mount. Then in a terminal type a command similar to:

Code:

echo "insert into user values('foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo');" | sqlite3 /mnt/kobo/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite

I say similar to, because the path to the .kobo file may be different, and your PC may mount it at a different point.

12-14-2012, 07:36 AM	#315
impert Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: kobo touch	There is an easier way! I wasted several hours trying to get kobo-desktop to run first on a Mac PPC, then on my 64 bit machine. (Multi booting GNU/Linux) Finally succeeded with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, only to find that there is a much simpler way which should work on any Linux, BSD, or OS/X machine. It comes from Antoine Amarilli, to whom I am very grateful. His blog is at: http://a3nm.net/blog/fnacbook_kobo_hacking.html Plug the device in and mount it if it doesn't auto-mount. Then in a terminal type a command similar to: Code: echo "insert into user values('foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo');" \| sqlite3 /mnt/kobo/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite I say similar to, because the path to the .kobo file may be different, and your PC may mount it at a different point.