01-01-2010, 05:23 PM | #1 |
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missing files in 0.6.29 precompiled bz2 package
I decided to upgrade from 0.6.19 (which was installed via the oneliner late in October) to 0.6.29 on my Slackware 12.2 laptop.
I used /usr/local/bin/calibre-uninstall to remove x.19, and made sure /opt/calibre was empty. I installed python 2.6.4 from source, but I am not upgrading glibc until Slackware releases 13.2; therefore I started with the x.29 source. ./setup.py choked on a missing plister (or something like that) module, further research indicates that's for OSX so I didn't try and find a way to build either the module or calibre. Unfortunately, python is not my strongest language. Hopefully, by caliber v1.0 the environment testing won't be so strict. I downloaded the precompiled x.29 binaries from sourceforge and extracted it to /opt/calibre. I confirmed that calibre works by invoking it from the command line. It found the database, and I spot checked a couple of encodings and all seems well so far. Unfortunately, I am unable to locate any setup scripts, desktop menu files for KDE or udev rules. The core application works, and I was able to manually add calibre to the KDE menu. I downloaded the src for x.31, but 'find' was unable to locate "*rules*" or "*desktop*". I did find some icons, but IIRC .ico is a windows format. The .png files I found seem to populate the application itself. On a related note, there were no scripts to 'ln -s' the executables into /usr/local/bin, but that was a trivial task. When I connect my Sony PRS-600, I see the udev system mount both the system and SD RAM as /dev/sd*; however, the device or SDcard are not detected by calibre. IIRC, I saw the calibre-uninstall script remove some udev rules. Would it be possible to make the aforementioned missing files available? Thanks! |
01-01-2010, 06:37 PM | #2 |
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You have to run the calibre binary installer for the desktop files and the mount helper (they are dynamically generated)
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01-01-2010, 09:37 PM | #3 |
PocketBook 302 FTW!
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Thank you for your prompt reply. I took another look at the exploded package, and I tried /opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall.
That script did the trick. It may be worthwhile to document this at http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux to save the next poor schmuck some time. Thanks! |
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desktop menu, linux, udev, upgrade |
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