How To Install Calibre 1.31 On Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian And Their Derivative Systems

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may already know, Calibre is an open-source book management software, with many interesting features including e-book conversion, e-book viewer, library to ebook reader synchronization and support for the most popular eBook formats, including: ebup, cbz, mobi, fb2 . Being multi-platform, the app works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

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The latest version available is Calibre 1.31, which has been recently released. Among others, it has received improvements for DOCX and AZW3, support for converting indexes created by the Word Index tool has been added and a button for inserting HTML tags has been added in the Book Edit function.

hhow to install Calibre 1.31 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian, Kwheezy, Crunchbang and their derivative systems.

In this article I will show you how to install Calibre 1.31 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian, Kwheezy, Crunchbang and their derivative systems.

There is no repository available for Calibre 1.31, but the developers provide us a python oneliner for installing the latest Calibre version. Also install the dependencies, in order to avoid installation issues.

$ sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"

The installation script downloads and extracts the latest Calibre installer, and installs the app in /opt/calibre, by default. But the user can easily change the installation destination.

how to install Calibre 1.31 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian, Kwheezy, Crunchbang and their derivative systems.

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