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Old 02-15-2009, 08:32 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by itimpi View Post
The Windows and Mac distributions are monolithic distributions so you download them and run the appropriate setup.

On linux you run the specified command in a terminal window and that does the install. If it is failing for you, you need to give more details of the error message, and also specify what linux distribution/version you are trying to use.
thanks... I get the following message when I paste and run the command into the terminal:

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andavane@IBM-ThinkCentre:~$ sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux_binary_installer').read(); main()"
[sudo] password for andavane:
Enter the installation directory for calibre (Its contents will be deleted!)[/opt/calibre]:
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John
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