Books won't download

[Jarulf]

Hi,
I just installed CC on my (old) Nexus 7 and have also set up my raspberry pi with raspbian and Calibre (an old version unfortunately, 0.8.5 something I think).
I start calibre-server from CLI. CC connects to the content server and lists the library, but when I try to download a book to my N7, I get a little book notification that says a book is downloading. Nothing else seems to happen, no download as far as I can tell.

I have no trouble downloading the same books with chrome.

Any ideas?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Jarulf

Hi,
I just installed CC on my (old) Nexus 7 and have also set up my raspberry pi with raspbian and Calibre (an old version unfortunately, 0.8.5 something I think).
I start calibre-server from CLI. CC connects to the content server and lists the library, but when I try to download a book to my N7, I get a little book notification that says a book is downloading. Nothing else seems to happen, no download as far as I can tell.

I have no trouble downloading the same books with chrome.

Any ideas?

CC requires calibre 0.9.2 or later. Versions earlier than that do not have the required interface that CC uses to get a book's metadata.

It is possible that if you use only the content server interface then calibre version 0.8.90 will be sufficient, but I can't guarantee this.

[Jarulf]

Thanks for the quick reply and a great app, Chaley.

CC works perfectly on my laptop with Calibre 1.3 installed.
So I will just have to wait until a newer version of Calibre becomes available on raspbian.

Thanks

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Jarulf

Thanks for the quick reply and a great app, Chaley.

CC works perfectly on my laptop with Calibre 1.3 installed.
So I will just have to wait until a newer version of Calibre becomes available on raspbian.

Thanks

Why not uninstall the distro version and then use the Calibre command line install shown on the Linux download page

[Jarulf]

Because that version is compiled for intel cpus, the raspberry pi is an arm device so it won't run.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Jarulf

Because that version is compiled for intel cpus, the raspberry pi is an arm device so it won't run.

Outstanding reason

[Jarulf]

And I'm not going to try to compile it myself. I have enough grey hairs as it is.

[Raimond]

Originally Posted by Jarulf

And I'm not going to try to compile it myself. I have enough grey hairs as it is.

I just did it, took me 3 days. So if you need help feel free to ask

Rai

[DisasterArea]

Hallo Rai,

just read that you successfully compiled actual sourcecode of calibre on the arm architecture of Raspi. Is that right? So if so, could you tell how. I am a programmer but a newbe on Linux. Just installed the actual wheezy on Raspberry Pi, read the list of dependencies of calibre on the calibre website and tried to find these listed packages with aptitude.

To me it is absolutely not clear which packages need to be installed. The version numbers and package names listed on the calibre site do not correspond to that aptitude lists. So if you could provide a little detailed walk-through getting actual calibre code build and installed on a Raspi, it would be great.

There are a lot of threads in the web with people that get stuck with it.

Regards

DisasterArea

[Raimond]

Hi,

I'm working on an installation script to install all the dependencies.
I'm testing the whole thing right now (some dependencies changed since I did it with calibre 1.3)

So the first installation will take A LOT of time, for example compiling pyqt takes more than 6 hours, installing it is equally long....

At the moment I'm fighting with lxml. Version 2.3.2 was required for calibre 1.3 and was available as a package, the newly required 3.2.1 has to be build from scratch.....

6 more dependencies to go, wish me luck

Rai

[kovidgoyal]

@Raimond: Note that lxml 3.2 is strictly required only for the new edit book at the moment. So you could get away with leaving it at 2.x if you dont use edit book, which I'm guessing it true ona raspberry. However, there are several bugs in 2.x that can cause crashes, so it is recommended you update to 3.x if possible.

[Raimond]

Hi Kovid,

thanks for your reply.
Took some time but I've used lxml3.2.4 - better safe than sorry

I'm still getting two warnings during calibre compilation:

Installing resources to /usr/share/calibre
Setting up command-line completion...

____________________ WARNING ____________________
Setting up completion failed with error:
__________________________________________________
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 494, in setup_completion
            from calibre.gui2.lrf_renderer.main import option_parser as lrfviewerop
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/lrf_renderer/main.py", line 18, in <module>
            from calibre.gui2.search_box import SearchBox2
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/search_box.py", line 20, in <module>
            from calibre.gui2.dialogs.search import SearchDialog
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/search.py", line 8, in <module>
            from calibre.gui2.dialogs.search_ui import Ui_Dialog
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/search_ui.py", line 220, in <module>
            from calibre.gui2.complete2 import EditWithComplete
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/complete2.py", line 19, in <module>
            from calibre.gui2.widgets import EnComboBox, LineEditECM
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py", line 21, in <module>
            from calibre.gui2.progress_indicator import ProgressIndicator as _ProgressIndicator
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/progress_indicator/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
            pi_error)
        RuntimeError: Failed to load the Progress Indicator plugin: No module named progress_indicator

Setting up desktop integration...

____________________ WARNING ____________________
Setting up desktop integration failed with error:
__________________________________________________
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 697, in setup_desktop_integration
            from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.main import SUPPORTED
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/main.py", line 14, in <module>
            from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.container import get_container
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/container.py", line 28, in <module>
            from calibre.ebooks.mobi.tweak import set_cover
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/tweak.py", line 14, in <module>
            from calibre.ebooks.mobi.reader.mobi6 import MobiReader
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py", line 26, in <module>
            from calibre.ebooks.compression.palmdoc import decompress_doc
          File "/home/pi/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/compression/palmdoc.py", line 14, in <module>
            '%s')%plugins['cPalmdoc'][1])
        RuntimeError: Failed to load required cPalmdoc module: No module named cPalmdoc

Installing calibre environment module: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/init_calibre.py


calibre successfully installed. You can start it by running the command calibre

There were 2 warning(s):

* Setting up completion failed with error:

* Setting up desktop integration failed with error:

It doesn't look life threading (ebook-convert seems to work).
Do you have a suggestion?

Edit: Found it: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=229603

Rai