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Originally Posted by rcentros
I guess I've lucked out as the Kindle and Kobo (Obok) DeDRM plugins work in Linux and that's all I use (this has just recently changed for Obok, I believe). As for my distro repositories, if I depended on them for Linux Mint Mate 17.1, I would be stuck at Calibre 1.25. Fortunately Kovid Goyal makes it extremely easy to install the newest version on any Linux distribution — just copy and paste and run a script (or a couple scripts if you need to add dependencies) in the Terminal. So, even though Linux Mint Mate 17.1 came out in June, 2014, I'm currently running the newest version of Calibre (3.30.0). Calibre is a fantastic application.
https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux |
Aye, thank you for that. Last time I installed calibre (2.75.1 - the version from Debian Stretch) I chose not to use the download page directly, because reading through the changelog got me a little overwhelmed. Turns out most of the changes of dependencies in the changelog concern building from source mainly, not to be able to use the binary version. It wasn't clear enough to me.
Have to say that installing with the script from download page went flawless and even faster than using the repository. Preliminary so far using calibre with the current 3.30 has even bigger speed advantages to the Windows version than 2.75.1 had. Very nice, all my installed plugins (including the DeDRM one) survived the uninstall of 2.75.1 and reinstall of 3.30 without any need to even set them up again.
KFX Output and DOC Input are the only two plugins now that don't even install in linux. For DeDRM I am in the same boat as you, it simply works without jumping through hoops - I always choose to download and transfer via USB from Amazon (only store that gets my business for DRMed books anymore).