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Old 07-29-2014, 05:30 PM   #7
huladaddy
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
The binary installer will of course overwrite the binaries (actually, I think they used to be wrapper scripts) in "/usr/bin/" and there is zero purpose in keeping the old lib/calibre. I'd just get rid of the repo version -- what do you need it for??

Just running the binary installer will unpack the binaries in /opt/ by default and then run /opt/calibre_postinstall which sets up /usr/bin/ and installs .desktop files and bash_completion scripts and other fun stuff. There is no significant time used up by this extra step.
I am planning to uninstall my current version, then install using the binary installer. The other fellow mentioned backing up .config/calibre. Is there a reason for this? Is this where my preferences are stored?

I assume metadata.db in the calibre library folder contains not only metadata, but also my custom columns and searches. Is this correct? And I assume uninstalling the repo version will not remove the library folder. Is this correct?


EDIT:

I posted the above before I saw your next two posts. Thanks. I think I'm good to go.

Last edited by huladaddy; 07-29-2014 at 05:33 PM.
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