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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why not just get Calibre from the Calibre website?
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This works OK for Windows because there's basically only one kind of Windows, but there are many different kinds of Linux, and they're all potentially slightly different. For that reason there's no simple download you can put on a website that would work on all Linuxes. Linux basically uses app stores (since way before Apple coined the term "App Store") - each managed by whoever publishes that particular brand of Linux. The problem is that in this case they don't seem to be doing a great job of publishing Calibre correctly to their users.
That's why Flatpak is cool - it's a kind of app store that works for pretty much all kinds of Linux.