Recipes for Calibre on Ubuntu not working

[sir-archimedes]

Hello,

I have installed the latest Calibre version (0.9.43) to my Ubuntu 12.10 server (xserver, qt4 installed) and try to download the "economist"-recipe, which works fine in the Windows version.

Calibre downloads the right structure, recognizes all articles but the content is not downloaded or wrongly parsed...

I have executed calibre with the command:

sudo ebook-convert /usr/share/calibre/economist.recipe economist_newnew.mobi

There were 2 warnings:
1) Forcing index.html into XHTML namespace
Referenced file u'feed_18/index.html' not found

2) SVG rasterizer unavailable, SVG will not be converted

The output file doesn't have any content -- I have attached it here as well as a reference.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot,
Dominik

Here is the whole output of Calibre:

Spoiler:

notroot@ubuntu:/usr/share/calibre/periodicals$ sudo ebook-convert /usr/share/calibre/economist.recipe economist_newnew.mobi
1% Converting input to HTML...
InputFormatPlugin: Recipe Input running
Using custom recipe
1% Fetching feeds...
Found section: The world this week
        Found article: Politics this week
        Found article: Business this week
        Found article: KAL's cartoon
Found section: Leaders
        Found article: Britainâs economy: How is it really doing?
        Found article: Climate change: Can China clean up fast enough?
        Found article: Computer hacking: A byte for a byte
        Found article: Italian politics: Addio, Silvio
        Found article: Legal highs: A new prescription
Found section: Letters
        Found article: Letters: On tax reform, cochlear implants, outdated acts, gift-giving, paying MPs, treating mental illness, home-brewing, crime, entrepreneurs
Found section: Briefing
        Found article: China and the environment: The East is grey
Found section: United States
        Found article: Barack Obama and the war on terror: Taking no chances
        Found article: America and Russia: No speaks
        Found article: Executive misbehaviour (1): San Diego: Just a little local difficulty
        Found article: Executive misbehaviour (2): Virginia: Gifts galore
        Found article: Dysfunctional Illinois: No play, no pay
        Found article: The Baseball Hall of Fame: Weâll get âem next year
        Found article: Lexington: Keeping the mighty honest
Found section: The Americas
        Found article: Corruption in Venezuela: The billion-dollar fraud
        Found article: Brazilâs opposition: Own goals
        Found article: Social networking in Latin America: Follow the leader
        Found article: Social networking in Latin America: Correction: Cuba
Found section: Asia
        Found article: Thailandâs economy: The rice mountain
        Found article: Taiwanâs army: Blooded
        Found article: Japan and China: Fishing trips
        Found article: Japanese security: Wide-mouthed frog
        Found article: Australian politics: Trust v fair dinkum
        Found article: Bangladeshâs volatile politics: The battling begums
        Found article: Banyan: Conquerors of kings?
Found section: China
        Found article: Aviation: Crowded skies, frustrated passengers
        Found article: Food safety: Spilt milk
        Found article: Anti-abortion activism: Uncommon cause
Found section: Middle East and Africa
        Found article: Elections in Zimbabwe: Stealing the vim from Zim
        Found article: Syriaâs civil war: A flower in the desert
        Found article: Syriaâs war economy: Bullets and bank accounts
        Found article: The Middle Eastâs migrant workers: Forget about rights
        Found article: The Israel Defence Forces: Taking wing
Found section: Europe
        Found article: Italian politics: LâItalia giusta v political expediency
        Found article: Alpine dress: The Lederhosen boom
        Found article: Turkish politics: Justice or revenge?
        Found article: Hungaryâs Roma: How to get out of a vicious circle
        Found article: Spain and Gibraltar: Like North Korea?
        Found article: Social media and French: Nous twitterons
Found section: Britain
        Found article: Living standards: Squeezing the hourglass
        Found article: Organised crime: Farewell to the heist
        Found article: Lloyds Banking Group: Industrial revolution
        Found article: The price of the performing arts: Pit performance
        Found article: Social workers: First, care
        Found article: Subsidies for working mothers: Keep it in the family
Found section: International
        Found article: The Indosphere: Made outside India
Found section: Business
        Found article: Business and cyber-crime: Firewalls and firefights
        Found article: Mexicoâs oil industry: Unfixable Pemex
        Found article: American newspapers: Chasing paper profits
        Found article: Commercialising neuroscience: Brain sells
        Found article: Browser wars: Chrome rules the web
        Found article: Italian manufacturing: A washout
        Found article: Schumpeter: Cronies and capitols
Found section: Finance and economics
        Found article: Europeâs bail-out programmes: What Angela isnât saying
        Found article: Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI: Out of the frying pan
        Found article: The race to head the Federal Reserve: Summers v Yellen
        Found article: The trial of Fabrice Tourre: Collective guilt
        Found article: Abenomics: Zoning out
        Found article: Buttonwood: Carry on trading
        Found article: The price of fish: Different scales
        Found article: Free exchange: Glorious and arduous
        Found article: Free exchange: Correction: Americaâs GDP
Found section: Science and technology
        Found article: The perils of sitting down: Standing orders
        Found article: Artificial meat: A quarter-million pounder and fries
        Found article: Influenza: Damned if you donât
        Found article: 3D printing with paper: Print me the head of Alfredo Garcia
Found section: Books and arts
        Found article: Christians, Muslims and Jesus: Centuries of dialogue
        Found article: The Johnson & Johnson dynasty: Pass the painkillers
        Found article: Spanish culture under Franco: Rebels with a cause
        Found article: New American fiction: Blood sport
        Found article: The photographs of Mathew Brady: History on film
        Found article: âBilly Buddâ
                                   Found section: Obituary
        Found article: Wu Dengming
Found section: Economic and financial indicators
        Found article: Output, prices and jobs
        Found article: Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
        Found article: The Economist commodity-price index
        Found article: The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages
        Found article: Markets
1% Got feeds from index page
1% Trying to download cover...
34% Downloading cover from http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/print-cover-full/print-covers/20130810_cna400_0.jpg
1% Generating masthead...
Synthesizing mastheadImage
1% Starting download [1 thread(s)]...
1% Article downloaded: Politics this week
1% Article downloaded: Business this week
2% Article downloaded: KAL's cartoon
2% Article downloaded: Britainâs economy: How is it really doing?
3% Article downloaded: Climate change: Can China clean up fast enough?
3% Article downloaded: Computer hacking: A byte for a byte
3% Article downloaded: Italian politics: Addio, Silvio
4% Article downloaded: Legal highs: A new prescription
4% Article downloaded: Letters: On tax reform, cochlear implants, outdated acts, gift-giving, paying MPs, treating mental illness, home-brewing, crime, entrepreneurs
5% Article downloaded: China and the environment: The East is grey
5% Article downloaded: Barack Obama and the war on terror: Taking no chances
5% Article downloaded: America and Russia: No speaks
6% Article downloaded: Executive misbehaviour (1): San Diego: Just a little local difficulty
6% Article downloaded: Executive misbehaviour (2): Virginia: Gifts galore
7% Article downloaded: Dysfunctional Illinois: No play, no pay
7% Article downloaded: The Baseball Hall of Fame: Weâll get âem next year
7% Article downloaded: Lexington: Keeping the mighty honest
8% Article downloaded: Corruption in Venezuela: The billion-dollar fraud
8% Article downloaded: Brazilâs opposition: Own goals
9% Article downloaded: Social networking in Latin America: Follow the leader
9% Article downloaded: Social networking in Latin America: Correction: Cuba
9% Article downloaded: Thailandâs economy: The rice mountain
10% Article downloaded: Taiwanâs army: Blooded
10% Article downloaded: Japan and China: Fishing trips
11% Article downloaded: Japanese security: Wide-mouthed frog
11% Article downloaded: Australian politics: Trust v fair dinkum
12% Article downloaded: Bangladeshâs volatile politics: The battling begums
12% Article downloaded: Banyan: Conquerors of kings?
12% Article downloaded: Aviation: Crowded skies, frustrated passengers
13% Article downloaded: Food safety: Spilt milk
13% Article downloaded: Anti-abortion activism: Uncommon cause
14% Article downloaded: Elections in Zimbabwe: Stealing the vim from Zim
14% Article downloaded: Syriaâs civil war: A flower in the desert
14% Article downloaded: Syriaâs war economy: Bullets and bank accounts
15% Article downloaded: The Middle Eastâs migrant workers: Forget about rights
15% Article downloaded: The Israel Defence Forces: Taking wing
16% Article downloaded: Italian politics: LâItalia giusta v political expediency
16% Article downloaded: Alpine dress: The Lederhosen boom
16% Article downloaded: Turkish politics: Justice or revenge?
17% Article downloaded: Hungaryâs Roma: How to get out of a vicious circle
17% Article downloaded: Spain and Gibraltar: Like North Korea?
18% Article downloaded: Social media and French: Nous twitterons
18% Article downloaded: Living standards: Squeezing the hourglass
18% Article downloaded: Organised crime: Farewell to the heist
19% Article downloaded: Lloyds Banking Group: Industrial revolution
19% Article downloaded: The price of the performing arts: Pit performance
20% Article downloaded: Social workers: First, care
20% Article downloaded: Subsidies for working mothers: Keep it in the family
20% Article downloaded: The Indosphere: Made outside India
21% Article downloaded: Business and cyber-crime: Firewalls and firefights
21% Article downloaded: Mexicoâs oil industry: Unfixable Pemex
22% Article downloaded: American newspapers: Chasing paper profits
22% Article downloaded: Commercialising neuroscience: Brain sells
23% Article downloaded: Browser wars: Chrome rules the web
23% Article downloaded: Italian manufacturing: A washout
23% Article downloaded: Schumpeter: Cronies and capitols
24% Article downloaded: Europeâs bail-out programmes: What Angela isnât saying
24% Article downloaded: Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI: Out of the frying pan
25% Article downloaded: The race to head the Federal Reserve: Summers v Yellen
25% Article downloaded: The trial of Fabrice Tourre: Collective guilt
25% Article downloaded: Abenomics: Zoning out
26% Article downloaded: Buttonwood: Carry on trading
26% Article downloaded: The price of fish: Different scales
27% Article downloaded: Free exchange: Glorious and arduous
27% Article downloaded: Free exchange: Correction: Americaâs GDP
27% Article downloaded: The perils of sitting down: Standing orders
28% Article downloaded: Artificial meat: A quarter-million pounder and fries
28% Article downloaded: Influenza: Damned if you donât
29% Article downloaded: 3D printing with paper: Print me the head of Alfredo Garcia
29% Article downloaded: Christians, Muslims and Jesus: Centuries of dialogue
29% Article downloaded: The Johnson & Johnson dynasty: Pass the painkillers
30% Article downloaded: Spanish culture under Franco: Rebels with a cause
30% Article downloaded: New American fiction: Blood sport
31% Article downloaded: The photographs of Mathew Brady: History on film
31% Article downloaded: âBilly Buddâ
                                    31% Article downloaded: Wu Dengming
32% Article downloaded: Output, prices and jobs
32% Article downloaded: Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
33% Article downloaded: The Economist commodity-price index
33% Article downloaded: The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages
34% Article downloaded: Markets
34% Feeds downloaded to /tmp/calibre_0.9.43_tmp_K2AJEE/wx1SKr_plumber/index.html
34% Download finished
Parsing all content...
Forcing index.html into XHTML namespace
Referenced file u'feed_18/index.html' not found
34% Running transforms on ebook...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 12.00000pt
Removing fake margins...
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating MOBI Output...
67% Running MOBI Output plugin
Serializing resources...
Converting TOC for MOBI periodical indexing...
Creating MOBI 6 output
Generating in-line TOC...
Applying case-transforming CSS...
SVG rasterizer unavailable, SVG will not be converted
Converting XHTML to Mobipocket markup...
Serializing markup content...
  Compressing markup content...
Generating MOBI index for a periodical
MOBI output written to /usr/share/calibre/periodicals/economist_newnew.mobi
Output saved to   /usr/share/calibre/periodicals/economist_newnew.mobi

[sir-archimedes]

I've just found out that this is defnitively a download problem: the temporary article/feed files are as quoted below... Any ideas how to fix this download problem?

Spoiler:

cat  /tmp/calibre_0.9.43_tmp_SLKNgF/h2AiSI_plumber/feed_1/article_4/index.html

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />








<style type="text/css" title="override_css">
            .article_date {
                color: gray; font-family: monospace;
            }

            .article_description {
                text-indent: 0pt;
            }

            a.article {
                font-weight: bold; text-align:left;
            }

            a.feed {
                font-weight: bold;
            }

            .calibre_navbar {
                font-family:monospace;
            }


.headline {font-size: x-large;}
 h2 { font-size: small;  }
 h1 { font-size: medium;  }</style></head>
<body><div style="text-align:center" class="calibre_navbar calibre_rescale_70">| <a href="../../feed_2/index.html">Next</a> | <a href="../index.html#article_4">Section Menu</a> | <a href="../../index.html#feed_1">Main Menu</a> | <a href="../article_3/index.html">Previous</a> | <hr />
</div></body>
</html>notroot@ubuntu:/usr/share/calibre/periodicals$

[kovidgoyal]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....n-linux-server

[sir-archimedes]

Thanks for the reply. I have calibre up and running, however downloading the economist still fails... Any further idea appreciated!

[PeterT]

All I know is that when I try the suggested command line

/opt/calibre/ebook-convert "The Economist.recipe" Economist.mobi

or

/opt/calibre/ebook-convert "The Economist.recipe" Economist.epub

I generated an output file around 6 meg in size for either example. Note that

1. I didn't need to run the code as root
2. Calibre downloaded the current recipe for me.