08-29-2018, 11:13 PM | #16 |
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Progress, if only 1 data point: pulling calibre and calibre-bin 3.30 from raspbian/testing (as seen at raspbian.raspberrypi.org and archive.raspbian.org) suddenly today works, when installing onto the latest Raspbian Lite on RPi3, as follows:
echo "deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ testing main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rpi-testing.list apt update apt -y install calibre calibre-bin I don't have high confidence this will continue to work with Calibre 3.31 later in September (as more than half of all versions since Calibre 3.22 have failed to install from raspbian/testing since May 2018, very sadly) but still let's celebrate today's positive news! |
08-30-2018, 12:30 AM | #17 |
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Uhhh.
I'm going to be a bit out of the box here and recommend you consider using Arch Linux ARM instead. Obviously as a member of the Arch Linux project and maintainer of the calibre package I'm a bit biased, but Arch really is much easier with regard to this sort of dependency kerfuffle. And we provide always-up-to-date packages more or less immediately. As long as you have someone pay attention to what happens when you update the system, it should be more or less painless. I've found Arch to be extremely stable actually. From quickly glancing at your Github, it looks like you deploy these rpis using ansible anyway, so it should be fairly simple to test an update then roll the deployment out to all the various installations. |
08-30-2018, 04:17 AM | #18 | |
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Debian has no rolling releases, thus packages transition into testing and sometimes there is a squeeze between packages in unstable and in testing due to API changes. It is the user's pick, rolling release and being on the bleeding edge, or stable release management with security updates. I for myself on my development machine I use Debian/unstable = rolling release, but on my server, or a handheld device I would not want to have that - because I don't want to updated every day just to make sure that security bugs are fixed by new versions, and hopefully my applications still run with the new versions. |
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10-14-2018, 01:02 PM | #19 | |
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I hope I'm not out of line for posting this here, but is anyone having problems with the 3.32 release? I'm running a headless calibre server with apache2 and reverse proxy on Raspbian, and when I upgraded from 3.31 to 3.32, I started getting this when hitting my library:
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10-15-2018, 04:42 PM | #20 | |
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"sudo service calibre-server status" returns this: Quote:
In the following bug report... https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1627494 ...Kovid suggests recompiling the headless plugin. Perhaps that needs to be done for the Raspbian build. Any suggestions? Last edited by Makurosu; 10-15-2018 at 04:48 PM. Reason: Clarity. |
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10-17-2018, 11:18 PM | #21 |
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the headless plugin is required for the server, as far as I know, there were no changes to it in the last release.
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10-18-2018, 02:20 PM | #22 |
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Hello...as per my knowledge raspbian has to port the Qt/PyQt packages first, only then will the updated calibre packages work.
If you want touse up-to-date software, avoid debian. I believe Arch Linux ARM has up-to-date calibre packages. |
10-18-2018, 06:33 PM | #23 | |
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I should not have upgraded from 3.31 to 3.32. I cannot roll back, because the calibre-bin 3.31 package is no longer in the repository, though oddly calibre 3.31 is. I'll just wait for 3.33 and hope that works. Then, no more blind upgrades. |
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10-24-2018, 12:36 PM | #24 | |
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3.33 headless still doesn't work, but it gets a little farther than 3.32. When I first start the service, it's active (running), but as soon as I access a library page it's back to this:
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10-24-2018, 09:39 PM | #25 |
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waiting for calibre upgrades is not going to help, since the problem is not in calibre code, but in the distro package you are using.
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10-24-2018, 11:08 PM | #26 |
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