[allenmaher]

Originally Posted by Smylers

Yes. I downloaded libzip1 from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archiv...9.3-1_i386.deb

And Kobo Desktop from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2183775/kobo-desktop.deb

Then installed them both with gdebi, which pulled in any further dependencies required.

Does that work for you?

I similarly got this working on 12.04 by downloading the libzip1_0.9.3-1_i386.deb and installing with dpkg -i
I also installed
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386

Then the kobo-desktop.deb using dpkg.

And it is up and running... now to throw out the windows version I had been using through wine.