03-05-2010, 06:14 PM | #1 |
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Calibre Binary Install Upgrade Failed Today
When I opened Calibre today I received notification that an upgrade is available.
I have always used the binary install from terminal to upgrade Calibre and it has always gone flawlessly. That failed today, which totally blew up my Calibre install. Here's the output I got - it looks like there may be a corrupt file? Code:
username@homedirectory:~$ sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()" Enter the installation directory for calibre [/opt]: /opt Will download and install calibre-0.6.44-i686.tar.bz2 Downloading calibre-0.6.44-i686.tar.bz2 590% [=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================] Extracting files to /opt/calibre ... Extracting application files... bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "<string>", line 207, in main File "<string>", line 182, in extract_tarball File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 488, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['tar', 'xjf', '/tmp/tmpb2S1ru', '-C', '/opt/calibre']' returned non-zero exit status 2 username@homedirectory:~$ calibre The program 'calibre' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install calibre calibre: command not found This worked - I now have Calibre funtional again. However, it's not the latest version and I would like the latest version. Is there an issue with the binary install or have I done something wrong? I did double and triple check to make sure I cut/pasted the binary command correctly. Help! Last edited by ksburgess; 03-05-2010 at 06:17 PM. Reason: forgot to give distro |
03-05-2010, 07:15 PM | #2 |
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Try running the command again.
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03-05-2010, 07:25 PM | #3 |
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03-05-2010, 08:22 PM | #4 |
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It worked, thank you for the quick reply Kovid!
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Didn't reboot between the crashes/re-installs and working however. |
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I guess its because software systems are among the most complex created by man, and as with any complex system, you start to see seemingly non-deterministic behavior, like the same action being repeated twice yielding different results. |
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03-06-2010, 07:10 AM | #7 |
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reboot
What is worse is there is even a difference between a soft reboot (Control Alt Delete in Windows) and a turn the computer off reboot!
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03-06-2010, 12:25 PM | #8 |
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03-12-2010, 07:35 AM | #9 |
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except as I stated above, I didn't do any reboot, regardless of what breed it is. So that wasn't the issue in this case.
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