Beta testing libprs500's new GUI

[kovidgoyal]

That information is passed to the 500 as an ordered collection if the books are in the main memory. On the 505 it works for all books.

I'm not inclined to implement this, as the internal modular architecture of libprs500 means that the module that passes metadata to the device isn't aware of the type of device. Since this feature is really only useful on the 500 for books on SD cards, it seems that re-architecting libprs500 is too much work for suh a limited use case

[BobWhite]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That information is passed to the 500 as an ordered collection if the books are in the main memory. On the 505 it works for all books.

I'm not inclined to implement this, as the internal modular architecture of libprs500 means that the module that passes metadata to the device isn't aware of the type of device. Since this feature is really only useful on the 500 for books on SD cards, it seems that re-architecting libprs500 is too much work for suh a limited use case

Sounds like my solution will be to move non-series books to the SD card and keep series in main memory. Someday....

Thanks,

Bob

[randcoop]

Running the postinstall, I get the error that help2man can't get --help from calibre-fontconfig. It then says that "unable to create MAN page for calibre-fontconfig"

This seems to be a serious problem. While the command line prs500 info sees my Ereader, nothing else seems possible. I can't get the Calibre GUI to run. Running things from the command line get far, but ultimately crash with similar errors about fontconfig (for example, I ran web2lrf nytimes and it downloaded for a long time, but then at the end, it crashed).

I'm using Kubuntu 8.04.

Can anyone tell me what to do to fix the problem? help2man is installed.

[kovidgoyal]

What error exactly does the GUI crash with

[randcoop]

File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('calibre==0.4.69', 'gui_scripts, 'calibre')()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 277, in load_entry point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)

It goes on from there citing other lines.

The final line is:

OSError: libfontconfig.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[kovidgoyal]

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so

[randcoop]

Thank you. Works perfectly now.

[iacchi]

Maybe not a GUI problem, but:

iacopo@Iacopo:~/Desktop$ pdfreflow book.pdf
Converting PDF to XML
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pdfreflow", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('calibre==0.4.72', 'console_scripts', 'pdfreflow')()
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/pdf/reflow.py", line 419, in main
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/pdf/reflow.py", line 378, in __init__
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/pdf/reflow.py", line 365, in generate_xml
calibre.ebooks.ConversionError: /bin/sh: pdftoxml.exe: command not found

[kovidgoyal]

pdfreflow isn't complete right now

[iacchi]

ok, thanks

[iacchi]

Hi kovid, I get this:

'module' object has no attribute 'unlink'
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/parallel.py", line 500, in remove_ipc_socket
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'unlink'

every time I close calibre gui 0.4.78 on linux.

[kovidgoyal]

Will be fixed in the next release.

[iacchi]

Hi Kovid,
I get this error updating to 0.4.85 (during calibre_postinstall execution):

Setting up bash completion... failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 176, in setup_completion
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/comic/convert_from.py", line 21, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/epub/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/html.py", line 16, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lxml/html/soupparser.py", line 7, in <module>
    from BeautifulSoup import \
ImportError: No module named BeautifulSoup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre_postinstall", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('calibre==0.4.85', 'console_scripts', 'calibre_postinstall')()
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 430, in post_install
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/linux.py", line 304, in setup_completion
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'manifest' referenced before assignment

[kovidgoyal]

sudo easy_install -U BeautifulSoup

[kovidgoyal]

sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup