[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

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)



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

Thanks eschwartz. So with the apropos thing, so you get all those commands. So then what? Do you choose one if you wish? And then if you decide to do that, how do you choose it?

And yeah, I'd be interested in the automatic updating of Calibre.

This is how you update calibre -- by reinstalling.

Do you uninstall first? And does this apply to all Linux updating of software?

Thanks.