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Originally Posted by geordiejohn
Hello i installed Calibre on my chromebook by using sudo apt install calibre but it is version 3.39.1 and i need version 5.23
when i go to the calibre website and copy and paste to install calibre it asks for a root password and i dont have one,i tried my password i use to login to chromebook but it does not like it.
the problem is when i connect my kindle it does not see it.
does anyone please know how i can bet version 5.23 of calibre on my chromebook without asking for a root password please?
thank you.
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Calibre official releases are for Intel platform. Your chromebook is arm.
Your chromebook can run plenty of distros for arm. Some of them ship recent versions of calibre. Sadly switching linux containers is an advanced topic, so I would suggest you to stick with the calibre version provided by the default container.
About your chromebook not seeing your Kindle device: that's the expected behaviour. Usb devices are not supported within linux containers. Since Kindles and Kobos use the very compatible USB mass storage driver they should be detected by chromeOS. You'll need to share the drive with Linux and then use the calibre "connect to folder" function to be able to transfer books.
Is a bit annoying to setup the first time but you'll get it without too much trouble. Trying to switch containers is several orders of magnitude harder so please try to use stock first.