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CubGeek · 09-17-2021, 06:43 PM

Greetings.

I've got a headless content-server up and running here in the house, and can browse the libraries through the web interface perfectly well. However, rather than attempting to edit metadata through the webinterface, I'd like to see about installing the desktop package on my laptop and tell it to connect to the local URL for the content-server's database.

Basically, using the GUI as a front-end for the CLI content-server. Can this be done?

Now, before you answer that, some information:

Content server: 3.39.1
Raspberry Pi 4b 8GB, Raspi OS 64-bit OS (hence the 3.39.1 server, from the repos)

Desktop: Win10 x64 (Calibre 5 installs and runs beautifully

).

I could install Ubuntu 64-bit, as that's now officially supporting arm64 architecture, but no clue what version of calibre is is their repos.

09-17-2021, 06:43 PM	#1
CubGeek Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Upstate NY, USA Device: iPad Pro, Kindle basic	Using Calibre on a laptop to manage library on another system? Greetings. I've got a headless content-server up and running here in the house, and can browse the libraries through the web interface perfectly well. However, rather than attempting to edit metadata through the webinterface, I'd like to see about installing the desktop package on my laptop and tell it to connect to the local URL for the content-server's database. Basically, using the GUI as a front-end for the CLI content-server. Can this be done? Now, before you answer that, some information: Content server: 3.39.1 Raspberry Pi 4b 8GB, Raspi OS 64-bit OS (hence the 3.39.1 server, from the repos) Desktop: Win10 x64 (Calibre 5 installs and runs beautifully ). I could install Ubuntu 64-bit, as that's now officially supporting arm64 architecture, but no clue what version of calibre is is their repos.