[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Thanks for simplifying it for me. One catch was it asked me what directory I wanted to install it in, but I just hit 'enter' again and it started installing it. Calibre seemed to (unless I'm really tired) make a nicer pdf from an epub than I remember it making in Windows. And it was fun looking at the Edit-Calibre thing. I at least am comfortable that I'll be able to make epubs in Linux now. Oh, and I did wonder (see screenshot) about the final bit in the terminal window (about automatic updates or what have you). And I thought the terminal window was the full screen. Oh well. I'm learning. I liked the Edit-calibre, but it didn't seem to be quite Sigil either. No spell check and the "view" window doesn't notify you when you make a code error. (Huge for somebody like me.) But it was definitely do-able. (Next up trying to get Sigil.) Thanks so much for all the help.

There are no automatic updates. "Automate future installs" just means, like when you installed it just now, you can specify where to install each time you run the installation command.

For instance, instead of:

sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"

you can use:

sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main(install_dir='/opt')"

and it will skip asking you for directory to install into, since you already told it to use the default directory.

This is how you update calibre -- by reinstalling. There is actually a cool way to automatically update, which I can help you with if you want. (see HERE)

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Thanks Peter. Not exactly sure what you mean, though. I know when I got stuck in the terminal before I typed 'help' and that gave me a bunch of info. that eventually led to me getting out. Is it similar? Like type 'apropos'?

type:

apropos keyword

and you will get a list of commands that are associated with the concept of "keyword".

Like this for example:

schwartze@ltsp22:~$ apropos calibre
calibre (1)          - launch Calibre Graphical User Interface
calibre-customize (1) - part of calibre
calibre-debug (1)    - part of calibre
calibre-fontconfig (1) - font configuration tool for calibre
calibre-parallel (1) - parallel tool for calibre
calibre-server (1)   - part of calibre
calibre-smtp (1)     - part of calibre
calibredb (1)        - part of calibre
ebook-convert (1)    - part of calibre
ebook-meta (1)       - part of calibre
epub-fix (1)         - part of calibre
fetch-ebook-metadata (1) - part of calibre
lrf2lrs (1)          - part of calibre
lrs2lrf (1)          - part of calibre
markdown-calibre (1) - markdown tool for calibre
pdfmanipulate (1)    - part of calibre
web2disk (1)         - part of calibre