Installation error on Raspberry Pi

[Volkan]

Hi,
I'm trying to install Calibre on a Raspberry Pi 2. I'm running the following command as it's advised on the official site:

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()"

But it's getting an error "Syntax error: "(" unexpected" while running postinstall. Full screen output is as follows:

2015-03-06 16:47:42 URL:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ko...x-installer.py [25629/25629] -> "-" [1]
Installing to /opt/calibre
Downloading tarball signature securely...
Using previously downloaded calibre-2.20.0-i686.txz
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
/opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall: 1: /opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Run "calibre" to start calibre

And when I run "calibre" it says it command not found.

(If I just install it with apt-get it installs without any problems. But calibre --version says 0.8.51 so quite an old version)

Anyone had a similar problem before? Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

[gbm]

You will need to build from source. Please see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=243161

bernie

Originally Posted by Volkan

Hi,
I'm trying to install Calibre on a Raspberry Pi 2. I'm running the following command as it's advised on the official site:

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()"

But it's getting an error "Syntax error: "(" unexpected" while running postinstall. Full screen output is as follows:

2015-03-06 16:47:42 URL:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ko...x-installer.py [25629/25629] -> "-" [1]
Installing to /opt/calibre
Downloading tarball signature securely...
Using previously downloaded calibre-2.20.0-i686.txz
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
/opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall: 1: /opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Run "calibre" to start calibre

And when I run "calibre" it says it command not found.

(If I just install it with apt-get it installs without any problems. But calibre --version says 0.8.51 so quite an old version)

Anyone had a similar problem before? Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by Volkan

Downloading tarball signature securely...
Using previously downloaded calibre-2.20.0-i686.txz

The i686 in the file name indicates that this version is for use on an Intel processor, while the Pi has an ARM processor.

You will need to either find a version already built for ARM (it is not done as part of the weekly releases) or build it yourself from source. Building it from source is likely to be non-trivial because of the large number of dependencies, but it has been done for earlier Calibre releases.

[Volkan]

Ah I see. Thanks for the replies. I understand what went wrong now. I think I'll just use the old version from the repository for now.

[eschwartz]

As I mentioned in the linked thread, it might be worth trying ArchLinuxArm, which currently builds calibre for ARM from the ArchLinux main repo PKGBUILD and is up-to-date. Alternatively, ArchLinux makes it very easy to build your own anything from source.