[Moschops]

I have just installed and used Calibre on my Aspire One with no problems at all. It took just a few minutes. I'm using Linpus as came installed, although I am using the XFCE desktop.

I entered the following line in a terminal window:

sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux_binary_installer').read(); main()"

as directed on http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux

I chose to place calibre in the directory /home/jb/calibre

I made this directory beforehand.

The response was thus:

sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux_binary_installer').read(); main()"
Enter the installation directory for calibre (Its contents will be deleted!)[/opt/calibre]: /home/jb/calibre
Downloading calibre...
100% [================================================== ====================]
Extracting files to /home/jb/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
Creating symlinks...
Setting up desktop integration...
Installing MAN pages...
Installing MAN page for lrf-meta
Installing MAN page for rtf-meta
Installing MAN page for pdf-meta
Installing MAN page for opf-meta
Installing MAN page for epub-meta
Installing MAN page for mobi-meta
Installing MAN page for txt2lrf
Installing MAN page for html2lrf
Installing MAN page for html2oeb
Installing MAN page for html2epub
Installing MAN page for odt2oeb
Installing MAN page for lit2lrf
Installing MAN page for epub2lrf
Installing MAN page for rtf2lrf
Installing MAN page for web2disk
Installing MAN page for feeds2disk
Installing MAN page for calibre-server
Installing MAN page for feeds2lrf
Installing MAN page for feeds2epub
Installing MAN page for feeds2mobi
Installing MAN page for web2lrf
Installing MAN page for pdf2lrf
Installing MAN page for mobi2lrf
Installing MAN page for fb22lrf
Installing MAN page for any2lrf
Installing MAN page for any2epub
Installing MAN page for any2lit
Installing MAN page for any2mobi
Installing MAN page for lrf2lrs
Installing MAN page for lrs2lrf
Installing MAN page for pdfreflow
Installing MAN page for isbndb
Installing MAN page for librarything
Installing MAN page for mobi2oeb
Installing MAN page for oeb2mobi
Installing MAN page for lit2oeb
Installing MAN page for oeb2lit
Installing MAN page for comic2lrf
Installing MAN page for comic2epub
Installing MAN page for comic2mobi
Installing MAN page for comic2pdf
Installing MAN page for calibre-debug
Installing MAN page for calibre-customize
Installing MAN page for pdftrim
Trying to setup udev rules...
Stopping HAL daemon: [ OK ]
Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ]
touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/haldaemon': No such file or directory
/bin/sh: udevadm: command not found
/bin/sh: udevcontrol: command not found
/bin/sh: /etc/init.d/udev: No such file or directory
Couldn't reload udev, you may have to reboot
Setting up bash completion... done

I then used the command

./calibre

from within the calibre directory. This may be where you went wrong - the command "calibre" alone would not work as the calibre directory is not on the search path.

Calibre went on to work fine and I've got a book on there as I type, put on from the Aspire One I'm typing on. Took maybe four minutes, excluding download time.