[geordiejohn]

i have got calibre installed but its version 3.39.1 and it does not see my kindle i followed all the steps Kovid suggested and then he said do a debug and post the output so here goes?
thank you.
calibre 3.39.1 embedded-python: False is64bit: True
Linux-5.4.109-26092-g9d947a4eeb73-aarch64-with-debian-10.10 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '5.4.109-26092-g9d947a4eeb73', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 15 23:10:24 PDT 2021')
Python 2.7.16
Linux: ('debian', '10.10', '')
Interface language: None
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