Installation on Ubuntu 10.0.4 failing

[director]

Using Python 2.7 with a brand new Ubuntu 10.04 installation

The installation fails badly:

wnloaded 99.996356%
Downloaded 100.013532%
Downloaded 47695562 bytes
Checking downloaded file integrity...
tar: Record size = 8 blocks
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 56, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/linux.py", line 11, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 15, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/builtins.py", line 572, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/pdf/output.py", line 18, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/pdf/writer.py", line 15, in <module>
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/pdf/pageoptions.py", line 6, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name QPrinter



Run "calibre" to start calibre
root@lvps46-163-78-160:~# cd /opt/calibre/
root@lvps46-163-78-160:/opt/calibre# bin/ebook-
ebook-convert ebook-device ebook-meta ebook-viewer


Starting bin/ebook-convert also fails badly

root@lvps46-163-78-160:/opt/calibre# bin/ebook-convert
bin/ebook-convert: error while loading shared libraries: libcalibre-launcher.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


How to proceed?

Why is there only official support for Ubuntu 9?

[DoctorOhh]

Are you installing per the binary install command found here? The binary install is the version supported in this forum.

Originally Posted by director

Why is there only official support for Ubuntu 9?

The only official support is for the binary install linked to above. No repository versions in any linux flavor are supported.

[phiznlil]

did you do the binary install?
I have installed on both 10.10 and 11.04 with no problems.

[theducks]

add 10.04 to the binary install works just fine list above.

SHUN the repository version. (Completely remove, if installed. It will leave your Library intact)

[director]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Are you installing per the binary install command found here? The binary install is the version supported in this forum.



The only official support is for the binary install linked to above. No repository versions in any linux flavor are supported.

I followed *exactly* the binary installation instructions.

[kovidgoyal]

You have a library conflict on your system. You can get more information on it by running

calibre-debug -c "from PyQt4.Qt import QPrinter"

[director]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You have a library conflict on your system. You can get more information on it by running

calibre-debug -c "from PyQt4.Qt import QPrinter"

bin/calibre-debug -c "from PyQt4.Qt import QPrinter"
bin/calibre-debug: error while loading shared libraries: libcalibre-launcher.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Where should the library conflict come from? This is a bare 10.04 out-of-the-box installation?

[kovidgoyal]

You are running bin/calibre-debug instead of

calibre-debug

[director]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You are running bin/calibre-debug instead of

calibre-debug

No output.

Starting ebook-convert gives a segfault

/tmp/foo/calibre$ ./ebook-convert
Usage: ebook-convert input_file output_file [options]

Convert an ebook from one format to another.

input_file is the input and output_file is the output. Both must be specified as the first two arguments to the command.

The output ebook format is guessed from the file extension of output_file. output_file can also be of the special format .EXT where EXT is the output file extension. In this case, the name of the output file is derived the name of the input file. Note that the filenames must not start with a hyphen. Finally, if output_file has no extension, then it is treated as a directory and an "open ebook" (OEB) consisting of HTML files is written to that directory. These files are the files that would normally have been passed to the output plugin.

After specifying the input and output file you can customize the conversion by specifying various options. The available options depend on the input and output file types. To get help on them specify the input and output file and then use the -h option.

For full documentation of the conversion system see
http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/conversion.html

Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-convert that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

Options:
--version show program's version number and exit

-h, --help show this help message and exit


Created by Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>

./ebook-convert: line 10: 29810 Segmentation fault $base/bin/ebook-convert "$@"

[kovidgoyal]

Sigh, read the notes under the binary installation instructions.

[director]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Sigh, read the notes under the binary installation instructions.

Please stop with your arrogant *sigh* comment.

There is zero reason for an application to cause a segmentation fault.

[kovidgoyal]

Everyone's favorite troll is back.