binary vs source

[iomari]

I've been happily running the source(developer) version for well over a year now but I haven't updated since version 0.9.9. Now I want to upgrade but from what I understand my version of Linux is too old for the newest versions of calibre. I'm current still using suse 11.4 and I can not upgrade at this time.

Can I use the binary cailibre without any dependency conflicts? And if so, how do I remove the developer install on my system? Better yet, is there a way to run them side by side? I need a quick fix until I am able to upgrade my Linux.

thanks
iomari

[kovidgoyal]

Yes you can use the binary install, just install it, it should overwrite the source install and vice versa.

[iomari]

I downloaded the 9.36 tar.bz2 file, extracted it to /opt then ran calibre_postinstall.
When I ran it, it still shows the old version. I checked the executable and it points to the new version. I'm confused.

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to use the binary use the install script, otherwise you are on your own.

[iomari]

I did but:

-> sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"
Enter the installation directory for calibre [/opt]:
Will download and install calibre-0.9.36-i686.tar.bz2
Downloading calibre-0.9.36-i686.tar.bz2
100% [================================================== ================================================== =================================================]
Downloaded 177 bytes
Checking downloaded file integrity...
The downloaded files' hash does not match. Try the download again later

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by iomari

Downloaded 177 bytes

Hmm..? Should be in excess of 40Meg. No wonder it's failing.

[kovidgoyal]

Try it again in a little while.

[iomari]

ok, I've completed the install but it's still coming up showing version 9.9

[kovidgoyal]

ls -l `which calibre`
cat `which calibre`

[iomari]

-> which calibre
/usr/bin/calibre

-> ls -l `which calibre`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jun 22 04:23 /usr/bin/calibre -> /mnt/installs/opt/calibre/calibre

[kovidgoyal]

Assuming that /mnt/installs/opt/calibre/calibre is where you installed the binary, then you should be running the binary, if you aren't, you're doing something wrong, unfortunately, I dont have mind reading abilities, so I cannot help you further

[iomari]

I've got it working. I had to manually delete /usr/lib/calibre.

Is there a way to change he separator character when using "calibredb catalog" on csv files other than a comma? I had manually changed it in the code when I was using the developer compile, but now I'm using binary so I don't have access to the source.

[kovidgoyal]

You can run from source when using a binarty build, see the setting up a development environment section of the user manual.

[iomari]

Thanks, I have developer and binary both working but there's one more thing you can do to help me. A few months back I changed the default "calibredb catalog" csv separator from comma to "||" due to the fact that there are too many commas in the comments field making it difficult to parse.

Now that I have upgraded the binary and reinstalled the old developer, I can't seem to remember which file I edited to change the comma to "||". Can you please remind me which source file defines the comma as the separator for catalog csv export?

Alternatively, is there already a feature in 0.9.36 that can do this that I am unaware of?

thanks for all your help.

iomari

[kovidgoyal]

I'm afraid I dont maintain the catalog code, you will need to do some grepping. Altough since the csv catalog has all fields quoted, I dont see why you would be unable to parse because of commas.