How to run a portable calire without using portable calibre exe

Dopedangel · 05-24-2024, 04:03 AM

Hi is it possible to run calibre portable without running its exe launcher. My work pc now only allows white listed exe files. Usually every new calibre.exe gets whitelisted after an update very quickly but the calibre portable does not unless manually whitelisted by our admin. So I was wondering if I could launch the calibre.exe directly instead of using the portable launcher. Currently I install the calibre portable in a different location and then overwrite the calibre folder with the new files and leaving the launcher files alone.

kovidgoyal · 05-24-2024, 04:52 AM

well you can just set the env vars for the config directory and cache directory as described in https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cus...ment-variables

and run calibre like that. It wont be a "portable" calibre but it will use the specified config and cache locations.

There is an calibre-portable.bat file in the resources folder of the calibre install that does this for you but I dont know how up to date/maintained it is.

05-24-2024, 04:03 AM	#1
Dopedangel Wizard Posts: 1,761 Karma: 30063305 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Singapore Device: Boyue	How to run a portable calire without using portable calibre exe Hi is it possible to run calibre portable without running its exe launcher. My work pc now only allows white listed exe files. Usually every new calibre.exe gets whitelisted after an update very quickly but the calibre portable does not unless manually whitelisted by our admin. So I was wondering if I could launch the calibre.exe directly instead of using the portable launcher. Currently I install the calibre portable in a different location and then overwrite the calibre folder with the new files and leaving the launcher files alone.

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05-24-2024, 04:52 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,024 Karma: 22669822 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	well you can just set the env vars for the config directory and cache directory as described in https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cus...ment-variables and run calibre like that. It wont be a "portable" calibre but it will use the specified config and cache locations. There is an calibre-portable.bat file in the resources folder of the calibre install that does this for you but I dont know how up to date/maintained it is.