Calibre-server / Linux don't see calibreDB update when it's running

[aurigod]

Calibre-server on Raspberry Debian don't see the new books when it's already started and I update books and calibreDB

If I kill the process and restart, Calibre-server sees the newest books.

I use also COPS and BiBucStriim, both see the newest books.

I launch Calibre-server in a script like this

calibre-server --daemonize --with-library=/media/local/bibli/ --max-cover=300x400 --auto-reload

All the files of "/media/local/bibli/" are readable and writable by all.

[eschwartz]

I think later versions of calibre fixed this, but Raspbian is pretty outdated...

[kovidgoyal]

Dont use --auto-reload that is for reloading the server when source code changes, not when content changes.

[aurigod]

How to know the version number of calibre server? Do you the latest number version.
I'll update and see if that fixes.

[eschwartz]

The latest number version is displayed on the Download page on calibre's website...

For reference, that is v2.44.1


Good luck updating you'll have to build it yourself or use a more up-to-date ARM distro. I suggest ArchLinuxARM.

[chaley]

As far as I can tell the last calibre package available for raspbian is 0.8.51. That is so old that is attracts zombies. For example, it predates support for calibre companion, which was released in 2012.

Auto-reloading libraries works as calibre 2.0 (the new database stuff).

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The latest number version is displayed on the Download page on calibre's website...

For reference, that is v2.44.1


Good luck updating you'll have to build it yourself or use a more up-to-date ARM distro. I suggest ArchLinuxARM.

I almost forgot to mention, you'll probably need to compile Qt5 also, which ought to be really, really, really extra fun.

To reiterate: getting up-to-date software on Raspbian is... challenging.

[aurigod]

OK, I have seen what is wrong : old version of Calibre, arm on raspberry...
Thanks to both of you.

[eschwartz]

Do you want to try ArchLinuxARM?

It's based off of a rolling-release distro, so it's always up-to-date.
Bleeding-edge, in fact.

Here is a direct link to their package archives showing the available version of calibre: http://archlinuxarm.org/packages?search=calibre

Yes, I use ArchLinux on my PC.

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Just because Raspbian is the most famous ARM distro, doesn't mean you have to use it. Personally, I've given up on Debian and derivatives.

[aurigod]

I tried to install Archlinux yesterday with the .img for Raspberry found in soundforge.
But I have an error message at startup with ipv6.
I am going to continue.

[eschwartz]

What .img from soundforge (sourceforge?)

Official ArchLinuxARM installation instructions for the Pi are here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi
Use the tarball from their website.

[aurigod]

Hello Eschwartz, I could install Arch Linux on my Raspberry PI2.

Can you tell me where I can find a procedure to install Calibre or perhaps is there a post on this forum?
Thanks for all

[eschwartz]

Luckily ArchLinuxARM has a precompiled version of calibre for ARM, and it's up-to-date, so you could simply use `sudo pacman -S calibre` (pacman is the ArchLinux package manager).

But it's also easy to build from source. `yaourt -Sb calibre` (yaourt is a pacman wrapper which helps you build from source via ABS or the AUR).
Or manually download the PKBUILD and run makepkg by hand.
See: package: calibre, "Package Actions" (on the right), "Source Files".
And see: Arch Build System

Building packages yourself is really easy (by design) on ArchLinux.

[aurigod]

Thanks