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Old 07-15-2008, 09:12 PM   #1
Ingrid
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Either a userbug or a problem with the generic Linux binary installer.

I'm not sure where I'm supposed to report problems with Calibre, but I'm giving this forum a try.

I was trying to install Calibre on my PC earlier today and got this fancy message:
Code:
sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux_binary_installer').read(); main()"
Passord:
Enter the installation directory for calibre [/opt/calibre]:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 272, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 262, in main
  File "<string>", line 243, in download_tarball
  File "<string>", line 179, in __init__
ValueError: Terminal isn't capable enough -- you should use a simpler progress dispaly.
After that I tried fetching the download_linux_binary_installer manually, su-ed the shell and tried to run the script. This is the message I got:

Code:
# python download_linux_binary_installer
Enter the installation directory for calibre [/opt/calibre]:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "download_linux_binary_installer", line 272, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "download_linux_binary_installer", line 262, in main
    f = download_tarball()
  File "download_linux_binary_installer", line 243, in download_tarball
    pb  = ProgressBar(TerminalController(sys.stdout), 'Downloading calibre...')
  File "download_linux_binary_installer", line 179, in __init__
    raise ValueError("Terminal isn't capable enough -- you "
ValueError: Terminal isn't capable enough -- you should use a simpler progress dispaly.
Then I tried to build the app from the source files, but got stuck trying to build convertlit. Which is where I'm at now, and thus I really want to use the generic binary.

Anyway, in regards to the binary installer I have no idea what the message I got meant. Which means I don't know how to fix it. Am I being stupid or is there's something wrong with the generic linux installer?

-Ingrid
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