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signum · 11-06-2014, 04:17 PM

The slitaz version of Linux seems to have been put together so that it would run smoothly on older systems, i486 even, with a minimum of 196M real memory. Often, smaller work-alike programs are used in these distributions to minimize resource use. Your "tar" may be one of those.

If you are indeed using 10-year-old (or older) hardware, you should first find out if it has the "SSE2" instruction (from the command line, run "hwinfo | grep -i sse"). Current versions of Calibre won't run without it, no matter what version of tar you use to install.

Otherwise, find another Linux distribution (there are several) for small systems with a "tar" that supports the -J option and install an older version of Calibre (previous to v. 2.0) that doesn't require the SSE2 instruction.

I'm sympathetic to your efforts. My home network has a full Linux-Apache-Mysql-Perl (LAMP) headless server running on a 256 MB 1.2 GHz Celeron. Calibre 1.48 is installed on it (which is old enough to not require SSE2) and it runs fine, albeit slowly. Calibre hasn't been updated on the server since Calibre started requiring SSE2.

11-06-2014, 04:17 PM	#3
signum Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 64428 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	The slitaz version of Linux seems to have been put together so that it would run smoothly on older systems, i486 even, with a minimum of 196M real memory. Often, smaller work-alike programs are used in these distributions to minimize resource use. Your "tar" may be one of those. If you are indeed using 10-year-old (or older) hardware, you should first find out if it has the "SSE2" instruction (from the command line, run "hwinfo \| grep -i sse"). Current versions of Calibre won't run without it, no matter what version of tar you use to install. Otherwise, find another Linux distribution (there are several) for small systems with a "tar" that supports the -J option and install an older version of Calibre (previous to v. 2.0) that doesn't require the SSE2 instruction. I'm sympathetic to your efforts. My home network has a full Linux-Apache-Mysql-Perl (LAMP) headless server running on a 256 MB 1.2 GHz Celeron. Calibre 1.48 is installed on it (which is old enough to not require SSE2) and it runs fine, albeit slowly. Calibre hasn't been updated on the server since Calibre started requiring SSE2.