03-25-2018, 04:15 AM | #1 |
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Question: Calibre on RaspberryPi
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With the recent addition of metadata editing on the content server, I was wondering if it would be possible to setup Calibre on a Raspberry Pi device? I searched and I can see a couple of threads from 2013 but none that say either way if it will work. Has anyone managed to get Calibre working on a PI? If so can you post instructions/link to instructions? I run my PI in headless mode and command line only, but I am not a Linux user, I just follow guides Appreciate any advice. |
03-25-2018, 05:12 AM | #2 |
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Here's a more recent threat ==>> How to get Calibre 3 running on Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian Jessie?.
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03-25-2018, 05:18 AM | #3 |
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Thanks, looks like it’s not possible at present which is a shame, maybe someone will come up with a repo in the future.
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03-25-2018, 07:02 AM | #4 |
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Arch linux has up to date calibre versions and can be installed on a RPi, see for isntance https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi
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03-25-2018, 07:32 AM | #5 |
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Thanks kovidgoyal unfortunately I use minibin as the footprint is smaller, if I ever wipe the os I will look to switch.
That’s one of the things I find annoying in Linux, multiple os’s with multiple distribution packages that only works on certain systems. Oh well. |
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Hi All, just wanted to provide an update for anyone finding this topic and wanting help.
first Buster which is in testing has 3.27 available, at time of writing. Sid has 3.28 I used Buster to install. 1) Edit your sources.list from /etc/apt directory to include deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster main 2) run apt-get upgrade and apt-get update 3) Now you can run the install as apt-get install -t buster calibre 4) It takes awhile to install including all the dependencies 5) Now you can start the content server (BTW it took me awhile to find the install under usr/share directory) 6) type crontab -e 7) enter a line @reboot calibre-server --log=pathtolog pathtolibary --daemonize replace pathtolog and pathtolibary with your locations that should be you up and running. I still need to see if it is possible to run the wireless device to sync the changes back or if I still need to do this via a PC. hope this helps someone else. |
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