CentOS 5.5 Compatibility

[wrdieter]

Anyone get Calibre running on CentOS 5.5? I am having problems getting the binary installer to work. I have installed version 2.6 of python as python26. Here is the installer output:

python26 -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()"
Enter the installation directory for calibre [/opt]: /usr/local 
Will download and install calibre-0.7.6-i686.tar.bz2
                                                  Downloading calibre-0.7.6-i686.tar.bz2                                                  
100% [================================================================================================================================]
                                                                                                                                          Downloaded 33789495 bytes
Checking downloaded file integrity...
Extracting files to /usr/local/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
tar: ebook-meta: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: _collections.so: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: libpoppler-qt4.so.3: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: libbz2.so.1: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: _multiprocessing.so: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: libgcrypt.so.11: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: numpy.random.mtrand.so: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00
tar: fcntl.so: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 18:00:00

[... many lines of invalid time stamp messages omitted ... ]

/usr/local/calibre/calibre_postinstall: line 11:  3965 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $loader "$@"

Run "calibre" to start calibre

I let the installer dump core and loaded the result into gdb. gdb claims the core file came from /usr/local/calibre/loader. Here is the backtrace:

#0  0x00e41305 in _dl_relocate_object () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0x00e47c08 in dl_open_worker () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#2  0x00e43e66 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#3  0x00e474b2 in _dl_open () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#4  0x001119bd in dlopen_doit () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#5  0x00e43e66 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#6  0x001112ec in _dlerror_run () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#7  0x00111a3f in dlopen@GLIBC_2.0 () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#8  0x00c06708 in ?? () from /usr/local/calibre/_ctypes.so
#9  0x0957adcc in ?? ()
#10 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#11 0xbfdb756c in ?? ()
#12 0xbfdb7568 in ?? ()
#13 0x09578eac in ?? ()
#14 0x095b168c in ?? ()
#15 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#16 0x0957adcc in ?? ()
#17 0x00c066a9 in ?? () from /usr/local/calibre/_ctypes.so
#18 0x00944ff4 in ?? () from /usr/local/calibre/libpython2.6.so.1.0
#19 0xbfdb75b8 in ?? ()
#20 0x008884c2 in PyCFunction_Call () from /usr/local/calibre/libpython2.6.so.1.0
Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC

I saw a post from about a year ago that someone got calibre working under CentOS 5.3, and hoping I can get it to work under CentOS 5.5 without too much pain.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Bill.

[kovidgoyal]

Your glibc is probably too old. get hold of a modern one at least 2.10 and dump it in the /opt/calibre directory

[wrdieter]

It looks like we might be able to switch to Ubuntu 10.04 on the server we will use for this. That will get us a newer glibc and the other dependencies we need.

If we cannot get a distribution with a more recent glibc, I'll try rebuilding glibc from source. I did before that for another project, and it was always kind of a pain making sure the right apps got the right glibc...

Thanks for your help and the great software.

Bill.