Nook 2nd Edition not detected in Calibre Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit

[MGMiller]

I have a Nook 2nd edition. It is detected by my OS just fine and I can copy ebooks directly to it using Nautilus. Calibre is installed from my Ubuntu 11.04 repositories (v 0.7.44) and seems to function correctly, except it can't detect my Nook. Any help would be appreciated.

I have run it in debug mode and this is the output:

calibre Debug log
calibre 0.7.44
Linux-2.6.38-8-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-11.04-natty
Linux
('Linux', '2.6.38-8-generic', '#42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011')
Python 2.7.1+
Linux: ('Ubuntu', '11.04', 'natty')
Starting up...
Failed to load high performance sqlite C extension
'Connection' object has no attribute 'enable_load_extension'
Started up in 15.3195450306
Exception in thread Thread-3 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/server.py", line 169, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/Queue.py", line 177, in get
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 259, in wait
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Exception in thread Thread-8 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/ipc/server.py", line 169, in run
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/Queue.py", line 177, in get
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 259, in wait
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'NoneType' object is not callable

[MGMiller]

On further reading, it appears Calibre did not support the Nook 2nd edition until version 0.8.something. I uninstalled my 0.7.44 and attempted to follow these instructions:
My system has python 2.7.1 installed.
wget -O- http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src | tar xvz
cd calibre*
sudo python setup.py install

It downloaded ok, but on starting the install, it finished with an error message and Calibre is not recognized by the system and will not run. Here is the output of the attempted install:

marty@tux:~$ cd calibre*
marty@tux:~/calibre$ sudo python setup.py install
[sudo] password for marty:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 13, in <module>
import setup.commands as commands
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/commands.py", line 28, in <module>
from setup.translations import POT, GetTranslations, Translations, ISO639
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/translations.py", line 14, in <module>
from setup.build_environment import pyqt
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/build_environment.py", line 12, in <module>
from PyQt4 import pyqtconfig
ImportError: No module named PyQt4
marty@tux:~/calibre$

[MGMiller]

I installed the python-qt4 packages and re-ran the install. It finished with different errors and Calibre still will not run. I suspect I am in "dependency hell". I have gone back to version 0.7.44 from my repository at least it runs. Is there any way to just get the device driver for the new Nook 2nd edition and add it the version that runs on my system?

This is the output of the latest install attempt:

marty@tux:~/calibre$ sudo python setup.py install
Package poppler was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'poppler' found
Package MagickWand was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `MagickWand.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'MagickWand' found
Package poppler was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'poppler' found
Package MagickWand was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `MagickWand.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'MagickWand' found
Dropping privileges to those of marty: 1000
No module named icu
No module named icu

*
* Running build
*


####### Building extension speedup #######
gcc -O3 -Wall -DNDEBUG -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c /home/marty/calibre/src/calibre/utils/speedup.c -o /home/marty/calibre/build/objects/speedup/speedup.o
/home/marty/calibre/src/calibre/utils/speedup.c:2:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 99, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "setup.py", line 85, in main
command.run_all(opts)
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 163, in run_all
self.run_cmd(self, opts)
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 156, in run_cmd
self.run_cmd(scmd, opts)
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 159, in run_cmd
cmd.run(opts)
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/extensions.py", line 298, in run
self.build(ext, dest)
File "/home/marty/calibre/setup/extensions.py", line 339, in build
subprocess.check_call(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 504, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['gcc', '-O3', '-Wall', '-DNDEBUG', '-fno-strict-aliasing', '-pipe', '-fPIC', '-pthread', '-I/usr/include/python2.7', '-c', '/home/marty/calibre/src/calibre/utils/speedup.c', '-o', '/home/marty/calibre/build/objects/speedup/speedup.o']' returned non-zero exit status 1
marty@tux:~/calibre$

[kovidgoyal]

The installation command you need is

sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()"

[PeterT]

Not that I have a Nook but for giggles I tried the command as given by the maestro, and it worked like a charm on a stock Ubuntu 11.04, 64 bit install

[MGMiller]

Thank You! That worked. I need to do these things when I'm awake. It was the binary install that I needed, not install from source.