[FileType Plugin] ACSM input plugin

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sorry but the advice you are going to receive is to install calibre from calibre - Download for Linux. Far too many issues with distribution supplied calibre to make anyone consider supporting them.

Plus, it could also be an issue with Flatpak.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Plus, it could also be an issue with Flatpak.

Doubtful. The ACSM plugin (release package download) works inside the Flatpak sandbox.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Doubtful. The ACSM plugin (release package download) works inside the Flatpak sandbox.

But does the official calibre work in Flatpak?

[gbm]

Yes, all Flatpak is nothing more than a sandbox. Flatpak calibre uses the official binaries, update's about 3-4 days after calibre updates. in my testing calibre flatpak works the same as direct download and installed calibre, all plugin work.

bernie

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But does the official calibre work in Flatpak?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by nevester

Hello, I made an account to report a problem here.
I have an .acsm file that appears to be affected by the cloudflare block (also happens to be from a german store... who would have known), so I needed a newer version than in the releases.
I've downloaded and installed the extension from the github actions, but not only does the import still not work, it does something damaging to the extension system such that I cannot configure, remove, or disable it or revert back to the old version. I had to wipe my Caliber configs twice.

For reference I was using the latest Calibre on Flatpak.

What happens if you use calibre outside of Flatpak? You'll have to install calibre from the official website.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But does the official calibre work in Flatpak?

Rather, the official Calibre *is* what's packaged in the Flatpak, and the ACSM plugin works exactly the same in the Flatpak install and the tarball install. I have verified the former claim by comparing file checksums (they match), and the latter claim by actually using the plugin (it works).

[chrisjonty]

Hey all, I am getting the below error when trying to customize the plugin. The activation.xml file is indeed empty but I'm not sure, if anything, what I should be putting in there. There's a fair chance I'm doing something stupid but any help would be much appreciated.

calibre, version 8.4.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>XMLSyntaxError</b>ocument is empty, line 1, column 1 (activation.xml, line 1)

calibre 8.4 embedded-python: True
Linux-6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.41 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64', '#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 2 14:16:46 UTC 2025')
Python 3.11.12
Interface language: None
EXE path: /opt/calibre/bin/calibre
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 16) && DeDRM (10, 0, 9) && Kobo Utilities (2, 17, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/preferences/plugins.py", line 298, in customize_plugin
File "calibre/gui2/preferences/plugins.py", line 375, in modify_plugin
File "calibre/customize/__init__.py", line 160, in do_user_config
File "calibre_plugins.deacsm.__init__", line 245, in config_widget
return config.ConfigWidget(self.plugin_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "calibre_plugins.deacsm.config", line 92, in __init__
info_string, activated, mail = self.get_account_info()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "calibre_plugins.deacsm.config", line 544, in get_account_info
container = etree.parse(activation_xml_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 3570, in lxml.etree.parse
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1952, in lxml.etree._parseDocument
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1978, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1881, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1200, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 633, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 743, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 672, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
File "/home/user/.config/calibre/plugins/DeACSM/account/activation.xml", line 1
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Document is empty, line 1, column 1

[Hschwickart]

I had to reinstall calibre and also the acsm plugin. I download v16 from Github.
But it seems to be an older version:
1. When I try to return a book it returns all subsequent
2. There was already an item for the main menue but its missing

I know that this behavior was overcome already some time before und worked in my previous environment.
What did I wrong?

[DNSB]

For what little it may be worth, I download the artifact files from the ACSM run on April 13, 2025 from GitHub at link to the calibre-plugins but I think you need to be logged in at GitHub to use the link. I've attached the file with the two calibre plugins to this message.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For what little it may be worth, I download the artifact files from the ACSM run on April 13, 2025 from GitHub at link to the calibre-plugins but I think you need to be logged in at GitHub to use the link. I've attached the file with the two calibre plugins to this message.

You do need to be logged into Github or you get a 404 error.