I'm on Debian13 and using Calibre 8.15,
isolated installation. It shows following errors when running the mentioned command:
Errors:
Code:
failed: Connection timed out.
Using python executable: /usr/bin/python3
2025-12-06 13:07:15 URL:https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh [35050/35050] -> "-" [1]
Installing to /home/ss/calibre-bin/calibre
Downloading tarball signature securely...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
import sys; script_launch=lambda:sys.exit('Download of installer failed!'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); script_launch()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "<string>", line 890, in script_launch
File "<string>", line 846, in main
File "<string>", line 708, in run_installer
File "<string>", line 684, in download_and_extract
File "<string>", line 672, in get_tarball_info
File "<string>", line 624, in get_https_resource_securely
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/http/client.py", line 1472, in connect
super().connect()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/http/client.py", line 1003, in connect
self.sock = self._create_connection(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
(self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/socket.py", line 840, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/socket.py", line 977, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
socket.gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution