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.
The latest version available is Calibre 1.36, which has been recently released. Among others, it got support for cross reference, a new tool for the filter style information has been added, support for Kepub files has been added, a function for copying the errors from the Check Book directly to the clipboard via right click has been implemented and the metadata plugin has been enhanced.For information about this release, see the changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Calibre 1.35 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Debian, Kwheezy, Pinguy OS, Crunchbang and their derivative systems.
There is no repository available for Calibre 1.35, 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.
