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Originally Posted by chaley
It is trivial to upgrade a Kovid-provided calibre version to another. I am not sure that is the case when switching from a distro package to the Kovid-provided version. Are the paths the same? Does uninstalling the distro package remove the configuration directory? Where *is* the configuration directory when using a distro package? Where is the library when using a distro package? Did the distro package channge anything significant? And so on.
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Distro packagers may do some weird patches, but none of them (yet) have rewritten calibre to remove the library switcher and so forth.
All they install is the progam binaries linked to system python, qt, etc.