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Old 03-06-2015, 03:37 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
I'm assuming that any distro-specific package for calibre is probably going to rely on the system included/installed Qt5 libraries. The Qt5 libs distributed with the official calibre installer include modifications to work around some issues and bugs with the official Qt5. I'm guessing that alone might introduce plenty of potential problems with distro-delivered calibre.
Nope,

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
That was changed for 2.x and Qt 5

The calibre linux releases are now built on a debian VM with all the bundled dependencies hand compiled by me, using upstream packages (i.e. not debian packages).

As for the OP's problem, almost certainly a library dependency issue (use LD_DEBUG=all to get more information, or just use the calibre binary packages and save yourself lots of headaches).
Qt workarounds are in the calibre source code itself.

Install-from-source is officially sanctioned and is supposed to get you the same results as the binary packages -- absent downstream bugs introduced by packagers.
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