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doctorow · 03-07-2006, 02:00 PM

I tried installing FBReader on Ubuntu, but I couldn't get it to work. First I installed the libenca0 from here (freshly compiled), and then I tried to run FBReader from this package. Unfortunately, FBReader still complains that it cannot find the enca libraries:

./FBReader: error while loading shared libraries: libenca.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The problem with FBReader is that it isn't so much widespread (its format). Even if you put FBReader on the $100 computer, most online e-texts would be unavailable because they are usually offered in PDF format.

03-07-2006, 02:00 PM	#2
doctorow Guru Posts: 914 Karma: 3410461 Join Date: May 2004 Device: Kindle Touch	I tried installing FBReader on Ubuntu, but I couldn't get it to work. First I installed the libenca0 from here (freshly compiled), and then I tried to run FBReader from this package. Unfortunately, FBReader still complains that it cannot find the enca libraries: ./FBReader: error while loading shared libraries: libenca.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The problem with FBReader is that it isn't so much widespread (its format). Even if you put FBReader on the $100 computer, most online e-texts would be unavailable because they are usually offered in PDF format.