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Old 07-14-2021, 08:48 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by geordiejohn View Post
hello does anyone know how to install Calibre on an Acer chromebook please?
I go to Linux terminal and paste in the calibre commands to install it but it keeps asking for a password and evidently it should not be a sing for a password?
thank you.
I'm coming into this late, but for me it was go to the terminal and paste the following from Calibre's site...

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

(This option did request a sudo password, that's why I had to put one in — run sudo passwd)

That installed it. Unfortunately I can't access my USB device from Calibre — so that kind of limits its usefulness. I don't think there's a fix for that yet.

EDIT: You can also install Calibre from the repository with...

sudo apt install calibre

...but that will give you version 3.39.1.

(This option does not require a password, but you get version 3.39 of Calibre here.)

I've tested both ways. They both work in Crostini without using the Development mode.

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