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Originally Posted by frmald
Well, I guess we're offtopic, and I'm reacquainting myself to the pleasures of dealing with calibre's human interface. Thanks for the reminder.
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Ah dealing with linux weenies that labor under the delusion that because they can open a terminal they actually know anything about anything. Thanks for reminding me of the pleasures of dealing with morons on the internet.
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Ah, so an isolated install, which is the only way to get calibre to NOT make unknowable modifications to the filesystem (short of chroot / pbuilder / overlayfs or other expensive jailing options) is not a "proper installation"? Good to know.
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Obviously, genius, a proper install is a full install, an isolated one is, gasp, isolated, ergo, not proper.
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I also particularly like this on the calibre install page: "You can uninstall calibre by running sudo calibre-uninstall. Alternately, simply deleting the installation directory will remove 99% of installed files"
Meaning, if my system hangs, or if there's a bug, I have to trust a non-distribution script to pick up its own trash, without any proper recourse to forcibly remove everything it "improved" on my system.
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I suggest you take the trash you call a brain and let yourself out the door. And just in case you dont realize how stupid you sound, if there is a system hang or bug in a distribution install script it will also leave all manner of trash on your system. And unlike with calibre where simply deleting a single dirctory manually cleans out 99% of the files, your much vaunted debian package will leave its trash literally everywhere.
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The calibre site itself says "Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below". It sounds a bit different, doesn't it?
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Yeah because distro manintainers, with honorable exceptions, like Eli above, exhibit about the same level of competence as you do, which is nil.
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And yeah, I know I can run Debian testing / Sid / Ubuntu non-LTS (giving up maintainability and control over key system setup), or switch to Arch or Void or worse and give up the wealth of Debian packaging. No thanks.
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Hey why dont you do the world a favor and stop using calibre.
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I think appimage was around before all the other fads. And that's the point of providing a clean appimage recipe -- not having to trust some "random dude".
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Right, you trust the random dude's software to run on your system and read all your files and data, but you dont trust the same random dude to install software, let me guess, because it has root privileges and could, gasp, destroy all the parts of your system other that dont actually matter, compared to your actual user data. Seriously, grow a brain.