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Originally Posted by PeterT
I think the issue that Jon is referring to is that many maintainers are adamant in sticking to certain versions of libraries that calibre uses, resulting in builds that are quite often crippled or broken in some subtle manner.
One issue I found yesterday on trying the flatpack version on my chromebook yesterday is that when I ran calibre in debug mode, I was told the log file was being written to /tmp/{some file name}, which did not exist.
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Yes exactly. The problem is that you cannot always rely on the repository for the software to work or be the current version. Heck, a lot of people ended up with some Calibre 5 beta from their repository instead of the correct version. There were a number of posts on MR about this. So do you really want to rely on your repository when it most likely will not work?