Calibre 0.51 won't load books or download news

[angevin]

I get this error when I try to download and store news from websites on my prs-505 reader (I compiled calibre from source on a slackware clone for 64 bit processors i.e bluewhite64 12.2 :

unable to open database file RemoteTraceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/sqlite.py", line 119, in run OperationalError: unable to open database file
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/gui2/__init__.py", line 153, in dispatch
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 1039, in scheduled_recipe_fetched
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/gui2/library.py", line 195, in add_news
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/database2.py", line 1137, in add_news
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/sqlite.py", line 146, in run
DatabaseException: unable to open database file
RemoteTraceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/sqlite.py", line 119, in run
OperationalError: unable to open database file

I get this error when I try to load books into the library :

unable to open database file RemoteTraceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/sqlite.py", line 119, in run OperationalError: unable to open database file
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/gui2/add.py", line 62, in metadata_delivered
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/database2.py", line 1189, in add_books
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/sqlite.py", line 146, in run
DatabaseException: unable to open database file
RemoteTraceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/calibre/library/sqlite.py", line 119, in run
OperationalError: unable to open database file

[kovidgoyal]

Where is your calibre library located?

[angevin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Where is your calibre library located?

Kovid if I get 0.5.1 working I'll make a donation to the calibre project. I think my calibre library is located at this location :

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.5.1-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/calibre/library

I think it compiled here originally :

/usr/local/src/calibre-0.5.1/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.5

[kovidgoyal]

mkdir ~/library
calibre --with-library ~/library

[angevin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

mkdir ~/library
calibre --with-library ~/library

Thanks a lot Kovid that seems to have worked. I tested both a news downloading recipe and uploaded four books to my device and it all worked just fine. I am going to now make a donation

[kovidgoyal]

glad it worked and thanks for the donation