[magdalencox]

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?

Works like a charm for me (Ubuntu 12.04, Dell Vostro V13) - thanks for bringing this to my attention!