Calibre 0.6.48 on Ubuntu 9.10 -- installation failed

[lenik]

tried to install according to the:

wget -O- http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src | tar xvz
cd calibre*
sudo python setup.py install

and the last step gives the following error:

$ sudo python setup.py install
Package poppler was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'poppler' found
Package poppler-qt4 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler-qt4.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'poppler-qt4' found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 13, in <module>
import setup.commands as commands
File "/home/lenik/tmp/calibre/setup/commands.py", line 28, in <module>
from setup.translations import POT, GetTranslations, Translations, ISO639
File "/home/lenik/tmp/calibre/setup/translations.py", line 14, in <module>
from setup.build_environment import pyqt
File "/home/lenik/tmp/calibre/setup/build_environment.py", line 150, in <module>
popplerqt4_inc_dirs = poppler_inc_dirs + [poppler_inc_dirs[0]+'/qt4']
IndexError: list index out of range

$ sudo apt-get install libpoppler-qt4-3 python-poppler
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libpoppler-qt4-3 is already the newest version.
python-poppler is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
$

Any idea what is missing?

[kovidgoyal]

What does

pkg-config --cflags-only-I poppler

give you

[lenik]

$ pkg-config --cflags-only-I poppler
Package poppler was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'poppler' found

$ apt-cache search poppler
gobject-introspection-repository - Introspection data for several GNOME related libraries
epdfview - Lightweight pdf viewer based on poppler libs
gambas2-gb-pdf - The Gambas pdf component
libpoppler-glib-ruby - Ruby bindinds for the libpoppler-glib library
libpoppler-glib-ruby1.8 - Ruby bindinds for the libpoppler-glib library
libpoppler-glib-ruby1.8-dbg - Ruby bindinds for the libpoppler-glib library
libpopplerkit-dev - GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content (development files)
libpopplerkit0 - GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content (library files)
pdf2svg - converts PDF documents to SVG files (one per page)
python-poppler - Poppler Python bindings
python-poppler-dbg - Poppler Python bindings
xpdf-utils - Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- utilities
poppler-data - Encoding data for the poppler PDF rendering library
libpoppler-dev - PDF rendering library -- development files
libpoppler-glib-dev - PDF rendering library -- development files (GLib interface)
libpoppler-glib4 - PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library)
libpoppler-qt-dev - PDF rendering library -- development files (Qt 3 interface)
libpoppler-qt2 - PDF rendering library (Qt 3 based shared library)
libpoppler-qt4-3 - PDF rendering library (Qt 4 based shared library)
libpoppler-qt4-dev - PDF rendering library -- development files (Qt 4 interface)
libpoppler5 - PDF rendering library
poppler-dbg - PDF rendering library - detached debugging symbols
poppler-utils - PDF utilitites (based on libpoppler)
$

I don't see package 'poppler', are you sure it's correct name?

[Solicitous]

Hi Lenik, I see you are trying to do a source install. Aren't the dev libraries requires to build against it, ie: need to install libpoppler-qt4-dev?

[BertReader]

I used the binary install from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux on mine with no problems.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BertReader

I used the binary install from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux on mine with no problems.

Same here.
Kovid found and fixed, the update glitch in that command, that affected a few of us, a few release back.
Now, when Calibre notifies me of an update, I comply Exit Calibre and paste that command into a Terminal window, enter the SUDO password and let it go.
Depending on your download speed, a very few minutes or longer and it is done.

[kovidgoyal]

You need the -dev libraries of poppler

[Javier Zamora]

Hi from Nezahualcoyotl,MX

[lenik]

Thanks to everybody, i've installed from binary, it works, however, today it gave me an error while fetching news from Slashdot.org:

(sorry, copy/paste does not work in "Conversion error" window, so I have to type manually)

...
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py", line 254, in flatten_node
ZeroDivisionError: float division

and then it's gone, had to restart manually.