Thread: Calibre download failed on PC with Linux
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Old 10-26-2017, 12:21 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by judecu View Post
I am a linux novice and have a new PC with linux - upgrades up to date. I have copied the command line in terminal for binary install multiple times exactly as written and triple checked. But keep getting syntax error message.

Have no idea what I'm doing wrong!
What distro and version of linux are you using?

Copy and paste the results from the terminal. Mask you username.

This should be what is get.

Spoiler:
Code:
XXXXXX@XXXXXX-SDA ~ $ sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda x:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main('/opt')"
[sudo] password for XXXXXX: 
2017-10-26 12:14:16 URL:https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.py [27407/27407] -> "-" [1]
Installing to /opt/calibre
Downloading tarball signature securely...
Will download and install calibre-3.10.0-x86_64.txz 
                     Downloading calibre-3.10.0-x86_64.txz                      
100% [======================================================================]
                                                                                Downloaded 62165576 bytes 
Checking downloaded file integrity... 
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files... 
Creating symlinks...
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-debug to /usr/bin/calibre-debug
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-customize to /usr/bin/calibre-customize
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/fetch-ebook-metadata to /usr/bin/fetch-ebook-metadata
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre to /usr/bin/calibre
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-viewer to /usr/bin/ebook-viewer
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-server to /usr/bin/calibre-server
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-smtp to /usr/bin/calibre-smtp
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-edit to /usr/bin/ebook-edit
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-meta to /usr/bin/ebook-meta
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/web2disk to /usr/bin/web2disk
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/markdown-calibre to /usr/bin/markdown-calibre
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-polish to /usr/bin/ebook-polish
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-parallel to /usr/bin/calibre-parallel
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrfviewer to /usr/bin/lrfviewer
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-convert to /usr/bin/ebook-convert
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-device to /usr/bin/ebook-device
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibredb to /usr/bin/calibredb
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrs2lrf to /usr/bin/lrs2lrf
	Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrf2lrs to /usr/bin/lrf2lrs
Setting up command-line completion...
Installing zsh completion to: /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_calibre
Installing bash completion to: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/calibre
Setting up desktop integration...
Creating un-installer: /usr/bin/calibre-uninstall
Run "calibre" to start calibre



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