[tok]

I moved the old directory contents out of the way before I copied the new bzip files into the directory. I have three directories sitting out there, oldcalibre, newcalibre and calibre. To try out the new installation, I blow away the calibre directory and then copy over newcalibre into calibre.

But at least starting Calibre with --with-library does work for the old installation now, and I actually only had to do that once and now Calibre starts properly without the --with-library.

Unfortunately, I still can't get the latest version to work....Aha! I fixed it. Egads, I did something stupid. When I did the manual unzip of the bz2 file, I did it as myself and not as root. So when I sudo copied the directory over to the original installation directory, the files were still owned by me. Duh.

Thanks for the quick response, Kovid!

--tok