Installing Calibre in Ubuntu in Windows 10 vsn2004 WSL2

[DaltonST]

I have installed Linux Calibre on my Windows 10 version 2004 using WSL2 with Ubuntu that was just released this week.

After activating WSL2 etc. in Win10, then installing Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store, I then did this within Windows Terminal within an Ubuntu Tab:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo mkdir /usr/share/desktop-directories/
sudo apt-get install xdg-utils
sudo apt-get install xz-utils
sudo apt-get install wget

[I next tried the 2 Linux Calibre installs using sudo, but they all failed due to SSL library import errors. So, I used the "stand alone/isolated" method instead, which worked the first time (having already done the 'sudo' commands listed above]

wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin install_dir=~/calibre-bin isolated=y


[and then executed calibre]

/home/daltonst/calibre-bin/calibre/calibre


[but then got]

daltonst@NUC10i7FNH:~/calibre-bin/calibre$

/home/daltonst/calibre-bin/calibre/calibre

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.
Aborted



Searching the web about installing "xcb" led to some "fixes" that were either fruitless or seemed many years out-of-date.


Any suggestions?



Thanks.


DaltonST

[gbm]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

I have installed Linux Calibre on my Windows 10 version 2004 using WSL2 with Ubuntu that was just released this week.

After activating WSL2 etc. in Win10, then installing Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store, I then did this within Windows Terminal within an Ubuntu Tab:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo mkdir /usr/share/desktop-directories/
sudo apt-get install xdg-utils
sudo apt-get install xz-utils
sudo apt-get install wget

[I next tried the 2 Linux Calibre installs using sudo, but they all failed due to SSL library import errors. So, I used the "stand alone/isolated" method instead, which worked the first time (having already done the 'sudo' commands listed above]

wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin install_dir=~/calibre-bin isolated=y


[and then executed calibre]

/home/daltonst/calibre-bin/calibre/calibre


[but then got]

daltonst@NUC10i7FNH:~/calibre-bin/calibre$

/home/daltonst/calibre-bin/calibre/calibre

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.
Aborted



Searching the web about installing "xcb" led to some "fixes" that were either fruitless or seemed many years out-of-date.


Any suggestions?



Thanks.


DaltonST

In your terminal Ubuntu Tab just type calibre.

bernie

[DaltonST]

Actually, everything I listed above was done in a Win10 Terminal Ubuntu Tab.

I also just ran "Ubuntu" from the Win10 Start Menu, ran 'calibre' in the terminal window that opened, and got the "calibre: command not found".

I opened a new Win10 Terminal Ubuntu Tab, ran 'calibre', and got "calibre: command not found".

I also repeated what I wrote in the first post, and got the identical Qt related "xcb" failure.



DaltonST

[gbm]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

Actually, everything I listed above was done in a Win10 Terminal Ubuntu Tab.

I also just ran "Ubuntu" from the Win10 Start Menu, ran 'calibre' in the terminal window that opened, and got the "calibre: command not found".

I opened a new Win10 Terminal Ubuntu Tab, ran 'calibre', and got "calibre: command not found".

I also repeated what I wrote in the first post, and got the identical Qt related "xcb" failure.



DaltonST

Try cd into the folder that the calibre executable is located then type calibre.

Do you have a Linux desktop installed?

bernie

[kovidgoyal]

You will need to setup an X11 server, WSL2 by itself supports only command line programs.