Ebook-Convert Import Errors

[jammer699669]

ImportError: cannot import name Qcolor

is the error I am getting

I am running it on a full server and want to use the EXec command to convert from epub to Mobi
The server is running CentOS6 without a GUI

I have tried to make sure everything is installed etc but the problem comes when it starts doing the Imports

[0] => 1% Converting input to HTML...
[1] => InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running
[2] => on /home/spang/public_html/epub/DefiantHeart.epub
[3] => Found HTML cover OEBPS/CoverPage.xhtml
[4] => Parsing all content...
[5] => CSSPageRule selectorText: Unexpected CHAR: u',' [2:6: ,]
[6] => CSSPageRule selectorText: Unexpected CHAR: u',' [2:12: ,]
[7] => CSSPageRule selectorText: Unexpected IDENT: u'div' [2:14: div]
[8] => CSSPageRule selectorText: Unexpected CHAR: u',' [2:17: ,]
[9] => CSSPageRule selectorText: Unexpected IDENT: u'img' [2:19: img]
[10] => 34% Running transforms on ebook...
[11] => Merging user specified metadata...
[12] => Detecting structure...
[13] => Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
[14] => Source base font size is 12.00000pt
[15] => Removing fake margins...
[16] => Cleaning up manifest...
[17] => Trimming unused files from manifest...
[18] => Trimming u'OEBPS/CoverPage.xhtml' from manifest
[19] => Creating MOBI Output...
[20] => 67% Running MOBI Output plugin
[21] => Serializing resources...
[22] => Creating MOBI 6 output
[23] => Traceback (most recent call last):
[24] => File "site.py", line 51, in main
[25] => File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/cli.py", line 360, in main
[26] => File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1195, in run
[27] => File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py", line 206, in convert
[28] => File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py", line 216, in write_mobi
[29] => File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/rasterize.py", line 13, in
[30] => ImportError: cannot import name QColor


this is the line from the php file
exec("ebook-convert DefiantHeart.epub DefiantHeart.mobi 2>&1 ",$output);

[PeterT]

What version of calibre are you using?

Is it installed from the official location (ie http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux) or from some other repository?

Have you verified that you meet all the requirements listed at http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux ?

[jammer699669]

yes I used this one
sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ko...x-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"

the system is up to date , but it is a server and not a regular linux install

[kovidgoyal]

The version of glibc or libstdc++ on your server is too old. The minimum requirements for those are listed on the linux download page.

[jammer699669]

is there a work around or an older version that I can use Glib is 2.12

[eschwartz]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....n-linux-server

You bought into the notion.

[kovidgoyal]

The linux download page also contains all the information you need to get and install older versions. You'd need version 1.48.

[eschwartz]

Kovid, the instructions I linked to still refer to the googlecode download page. Also, maybe it should be updated to "compile a newer version of glibc (>= 2.13)".

[kovidgoyal]

It's actually more complex than that, now (thanks to Qt5). You will need both libc and libstdc++. I'm just going to remove that section.

[eschwartz]

The old version was funnier.

Note: If you bought into the notion that a real server must run a decade old version of Debian, then you will have to jump through a few hoops. [...]

Anyway, thanks for updating the instructions.

[jammer699669]

Thanks for the Info Kovid

I looked at all the options for upgrading the OS on the server but it has it's own problems

I will give 1.48 a try

[jammer699669]

is there a binary install for that version >? 1.48

I have tried the tar file but it doesn't add it to th path as well it gives me an ImageMagick error

[eschwartz]

Extract the tarball manually into opt, then run sudo /opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall to setup mimetypes, file associations, linking the binaries to /usr/bin/, adding bash/zsh-completions, etc.

The imagemagick error is probably the same one we have been getting for years, some stupid warning about color profiles in resource images. Does it still run? What is the error?

[jammer699669]

RuntimeError: Failed to load ImageMagick: libXdmcp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I did run
/opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall
it gave two warnings , prob because am running on a headless server
the error above happens when I run this command
I am in the right directory etc

As well I have ImageMagick installed on the server

ebook-convert DefiantHeart.epub DefiantHeart.mobi --mobi-toc-at-start

[jammer699669]

OK Finally got it to work

had to install libXdmcp


Thanks guys for all the help