Thread: Can't open books, suspect xdg-open
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Old 05-07-2016, 10:27 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Eoaka View Post
Hi, I hope this finds you well.

I'm having trouble opening books, any books, on calibre 2.49 on OpenSUSE Leap with XFCE. I get the following error message:

Failed to open URI "file:///home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)".

Error when getting information for file '/home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)': No such file or directory.

The same thing happens for epubs and pdfs.

Now I'm pretty sure it's related to xdg-open passing along %20 instead of handling the spaces properly. I found this post on this forum from a few years ago: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=15 Unfortunately this is referencing LXDE not XFCE, and xdg-open seems to have changed anyway.

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I've searched around for this quite a bit before asking. Also maybe I should be filing a bug report somewhere, since this is a vanilla install from the repos for both xdg-utils and Calibre. Thanks in advance for your time!
Uninstall the repos version of calibre and use the official calibre binary installer.

http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
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Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below.
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