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: epub, cbz, mobi, fb2 . Being multi-platform, the app works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
The latest version available is Calibre 2.0, which has been ported to Qt5 and received an important number of changes and bug-fixes.
From the changelog:
- Add support for MTP devices (Android phones/tablets) on OS X
- Update the version of Qt used by calibre to Qt 5. This fixes various longstanding bugs in calibre that were caused by bugs in Qt 4
- Edit Book: Make the edit saved search/add saved search popup window non-modal
- Tag Browser: Show format specific icons for the format entries in the Tag Browser
- Library check: Add buttons to conveniently mark all fixable/deletable items
- E-book viewer: Reloading the book now re-opens it at the current position even if the option to remember position when quitting is turned off
- E-book viewer: Remove extra spacing between document and scrollbars. This is particularly noticeable when using a dark theme for the viewer
- PDF Output: Fix balanced parentheses in the text of items in the Table of Contents not being rendered properly by some PDF viewers
- Edit book: Abort terminal save on save error instead of quitting editor
- Get Books: Update the Project Gutenberg plugin for website changes
- Plugin loading: When multiple plugin classes are present in the __init__.py namespace, use the one with the qualified name that has the least components
- Edit Book: Prevent long saved searches from making the saved search dialog too wide
- Comic Input: Sort pages placed in sub-folders correctly (as long as all pages have the same number of parent folders)
- Conversion: Fix the word @page in a comment inside a stylesheet with no following {} causing the rest of the stylesheet to be ignored
- Fix comparing AZW3 to ORIGINAL_AZW3 from the book details panel not working
In this article I will show you how to install Calibre 2.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, LXLE, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, Peppermint, Linux Lite, Deepin, Debian, Kwheezy, Crunchbang, SparkyLinux and other Ubuntu and Debian derivative systems.
There is no repository available for Calibre 2.0, 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.