On 12/29/2009 2:24 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been
opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better?
Thanks.
Calibre
Binary install
calibre has a binary installer that has been tested on a number of
distributions on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 machines. To install, you
may need to make sure your system has python ≥ 2.6. Copy paste the
following command into a terminal as superuser* and press Enter:
# python -c "import urllib2;
exec urllib2.urlopen(
'http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer'
).read(); main()"
(The above should be all on a single line)
Note
o You need GLIBC 2.10 or higher to run versions greater than 0.6.29. If
you receive an error about GLIBC you can downgrade to an older version
by getting the .tar.bz2 file for your architecture (32bit or 64bit) from
sourceforge. Then delete the contents of /opt/calibre and extract the
downloaded .tar.bz2 file into /opt/calibre.
o When running the command line utilities, they will segfault after
completion. This can be ignored.
o You must have xdg-utils installed on your system before running the
installer.
Source install
Make sure your system has python ≥ 2.6
Install the various dependencies listed below
Run the following commands in a terminal:
$ wget -O- http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src | tar xvz
$ cd calibre*
As superuser*:
# python setup.py install
Note that if your distribution does not have a correctly compiled
libunrar.so, ${app} will not support rar files. In order to compile
${app} successfully poppler headers must include XPdf headers. That is,
poppler must have been configured with --enable-xpdf-headers. Also, some
distributions have buggy libpng headers.
See:
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
They claim it's been tested on Debian. I had minor difficulties, mainly
with Python 2.6.1.
Mark Allums
*Or use sudo.
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