Sorry for a long silence.
I am now trying things on a different distro (LinuxMint17.1 cinnamon) and the script finds Config, Library, and Programme fine, but this is what happens when I try to run it in terminal:
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Starting up Calibre from portable directory "/media/bambuko/b3fe1f5a-f86b-4425-ad6f-999d97b9def7"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 49, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/startup.py", line 77, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/localization.py", line 129, in set_translators
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/localization.py", line 63, in get_lang
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/config_base.py", line 446, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/config_base.py", line 354, in __getitem__
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/config_base.py", line 364, in get
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/config_base.py", line 348, in refresh
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/config_base.py", line 275, in parse
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/lock.py", line 139, in __enter__
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/lock.py", line 118, in unix_open
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/media/bambuko/b3fe1f5a-f86b-4425-ad6f-999d97b9def7/CalibreConfig/global.py'
/media/bambuko/b3fe1f5a-f86b-4425-ad6f-999d97b9def7/calibre/lib/python2.7/site-packages/calibre/ptempfile.py:27: RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'calibre' not found while handling absolute import
All my previous tests were done with a simple distro running in root so this is first time I come across the delight of password/permissions
After laboriously changing all the permissions (right PITA) managed to get it all going, but still getting the following error messages:
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Failed to initialize plugin: ISBNDB (1, 0, 0)
Failed to initialize plugin: <class 'calibre.ebooks.metadata.sources.isbndb.ISBNDB'>
libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited