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Old 06-19-2020, 05:19 AM   #2193
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Originally Posted by giddie View Post
OK, well to put things a different way: Flatpak is the closest thing to "Windows-like" distribution you're going to see for Linux. It's a format that Calibre can put on its website that will work for all Linux distributions. (Although there's already a perfectly good package on Flathub, so there's no need.) Right now, the only offering Calibre has under "Download" for Linux is a shell script, and most Linux users avoid those kinds of installers for very good security and system management reasons.
And Flathub has the correct version of Calibre unlike most repositories.
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