[dunhill]

Originally Posted by gbm

I did not get a chance to try this until today.

• On a usb stick make a folder named "calibre"*
• On a usb stick make a folder named "CalibreConfig"
• On a usb stick make a folder named "CalibreLibrary"
• On a usb stick make a folder named "tmp"
• Download the tarball version of calibre you want from here
• Extract the tarball to the folder "calibre"
• Copy the calibre-portable.sh file from the usb folder /calibre/resources to the top level of the usb.
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• Open a terminal and cd to the usb stick
• enter ./calibre-portable.sh into the terminal press enter
• press enter to start calibre.
  
  

  :~$ cd /media/xxxxxxx/gbm
  :/media/xxxxxxx/gbm$ ./calibre-portable.sh
  Generating default configuration file at /media/xxxxxxx/gbm/calibre-portable.conf
  Set any non-default options here.
  CONFIG FILES:       /media/xxxxxxx/gbm/CalibreConfig
  --------------------------------------------------
  LIBRARY FILES:      /media/xxxxxxx/gbm/CalibreLibrary
  --------------------------------------------------
  SOURCE FILES:       *** Not being Used ***
  --------------------------------------------------
  PROGRAM FILES:      /media/xxxxxxx/gbm/calibre
  --------------------------------------------------
  TEMPORARY FILES:    /tmp/CALIBRE_TEMP_fEfBrFz
  --------------------------------------------------
  
  Press CTRL-C if you do not want to continue
  Press ENTER to continue and start Calibre
  
  Starting up Calibre from portable directory "/media/xxxxxxx/gbm"
  Using library at /media/xxxxxxx/gbm/CalibreLibrary

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You will now have a portable calibre on a usb stick for linux--I formatted my stick as ext4.
bernie

Yes now !!! thanks for the detailed explanation I was missing several details