Installing 1.48 as isolated for Centos 6.8

[FittersGuy]

Hi there,

I'm having some difficulties installing calibre on my Centos 6.8 server. From what I'm told by my host, Calibre 2.* will not work because of missing dependencies, so I'm trying to install v1.48.

However, I've come to a wall that I can't seem to get any information on to figure out how to proceed. Here's an error I'm getting:

xxx@xxx.com [~]# calibre/fetch-ebook-metadata calibre/resources/tracer.epub
<calibre.utils.logging.ThreadSafeLog object at 0x24957d0>
No results found

Here's a portion from testbuild:

xxx@xxx.com [~/calibre]# ./calibre-debug --test-build

...

OK (skipped=1)
ICU OK!
WOFF ok!
Qt OK!
html5lib OK!
regex OK!
Testing tinycss tokenizer
magick OK!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 0 tests in 0.000s

OK
tinycss tokenizer OK!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site.py", line 61, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/debug.py", line 261, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/test_build.py", line 177, in test
  File "site-packages/calibre/test_build.py", line 23, in test_dbus
  File "site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 211, in __new__
  File "site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 100, in __new__
  File "site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 122, in __new__
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

Is there anything I can do to fix this, or should I give up on Calibre for Centos 6.8? It should be noted that I've also tried v0.9.44 and got the same error when running fetch-ebook-metadata

[kovidgoyal]

There is no error when you are running fetch-ebook-metadata. It simply found no results. That's not surprising since it works by scraping websites and the websites change over time, so using a very old version will be unlikely to work.

[FittersGuy]

Ah, okay. I was using the wrong command. What I wanted was ebook-metadata without any parameters. Thanks!