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Old 12-28-2008, 11:24 PM   #1
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downloading calibre in ubuntu hardy

Hi,

I have calibre downloaded on my windows drive with no problems and enjoy using it. So I thought I would download it on my ubuntu drive as well even though that involved "using the command line" rather than add/remove or synaptic. command line still equals very scary.

first I tried the ubuntu intrepid commands & got this -

elizabeth@elizabeth-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-imaging libqt4-core libqt4-gui \ python-qt4 python-mechanize imagemagick \ xdg-utils python-dbus python-lxml python-beautifulsoup \ help2man
[sudo] password for elizabeth:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-imaging is already the newest version.
python-imaging set to manually installed.
E: Couldn't find package python-qt4

so I read through various threads here and saw where someone recommend using the binary commands, so I did that & got this


elizabeth@elizabeth-desktop:~$ sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux_binary_installer').read(); main()"
Enter the installation directory for calibre (Its contents will be deleted!)[/opt/calibre]:
Downloading calibre...
100% [================================================== ================================================== ===============================]
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
Creating symlinks...
Trying to setup udev rules...
* Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
Setting up bash completion... done
Setting up desktop integration...
Installing MAN pages...
Installing MAN page for lrf-meta
Failed to install MAN pages as help2man is missing from your system
elizabeth@elizabeth-desktop:~$

calibre appears to be installed on my ubuntu system but I haven't done anything but open it yet. is the missing help2man and/or MAN pages important? do I need to install it somehow? do I need to redo this all somehow?

thanks, newbie ubuntu user Beth

p.s - in windows xp, sony reader has you eject the reader. do I have to unmount it when I use the reader with calibre on either the ubuntu or the xp side?
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