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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
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. ...
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I think with modern Linux distributions the dependencies are usually met already and you should only have to run the top (installation) script. I think with Linux Mint 17.1 I had to run one (or two?) additional scripts the first time for the dependencies. Since then it's just been the top one. Like you, though, I balked when I saw all the scripts, but the repository version (1.25) in Linux Mint 17.1 of Calibre had way too many limitations so I eventually "waded in." I should have never waited, as you say, it turned out to be easy.
You'll find now that Calibre will give you notice about every week (or every other week) that there is a new update waiting. I (personally) don't update every time, usually just every two or three times.
The Export/Import works really well. I exported my Calibre books from Linux, copied to a thumb drive and then imported them to a Windows machine (just to see if it would work) and I had no issues. What surprised me is that even the DeDRM plugins moved over, already configured and worked "out of box" on the new install. (I'm guessing that wouldn't work going the other way if you were using plugins that don't work in Linux.)