Calibre on eee PC 901 (Linux)

[astrocat]

I am trying to install calibre on my Eee PC 901 running the default Xandros Linux Distro with no success. I tried both methods, installing the Debian version and compiling from source:

When compiling from source, I get the following error

> File "setup.py", line 174
> max = mtime if mtime > max else max
^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

When installing Debian version I get

> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package python-setuptools


I suspect I do not have Python 2.5 installed, but when I check using synatic, it shows that the latest version installed is 2.5-5. I tried
sudo apt-get install python2.5 and got the following:


> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> python2.5 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up asus-categories (3.200-7) ...
> dpkg: error processing asus-categories (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> asus-categories
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm a complete newbie to Linux, any help will be greatly appreciated.

[kovidgoyal]

Use the binary installer. Your computer has python < 2.5