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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Given the premise of the thread is using Kovid's release, not thirdparty versions, I call unfair comparison.
But regardless I'm not sure I understand your objection. Are you implying the mix of python and calibre versions has any downside other than being an installer you chose to use for your decision to install an old version of calibre?
Does it crash or refuse to work? Is there no obvious way to solve the problem?
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If you don't mind trying to run an antique version of calibre with a Python 3 interpreter which does not work very well (I'm feeling kind
) or being served up a beta version of calibre that won't run most of your plugins—in which world did a beta of calibre 5 become the supported version? I was under the impression that repositories are supposed to be places to go to download tested software.
Not every distro has someone who cares enough about calibre to ensure the version in their repository will have all the dependencies and will actually work for the average user. Now if you could clone yourself... Naw, that's too wild eyed even for dreaming.
And yes, I know enough to install the version from Kovid's site and even enough to modify the install script to match my requirements. There have been enough posts where people have come to this forum after they have installed a repository version of calibre and run into issues. Most of which are fixed by the advice to install and run the version from Kovid's site.