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amaro

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From: xfce

Registered: 2014-05-09

Posts: 367

foliate stopped opening epub files

Hello everybody!

After yesterday updates 'foliate' cannot open epub files.

I checked its details

Qi foliate
Name            : foliate
Version         : 2.5.0-1
Description     : A simple and modern GTK eBook reader
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gjs  iso-codes  webkit2gtk
Optional Deps   : dictd: Offline dictionary support [installed]
                  espeak-ng: Text-to-speech support; also voice package needed
                  festival: Text-to-speech support; also voice package needed
                  gspell: Spell-checking support [installed]
                  hyphen: Auto-hyphenation support [installed]
                  tracker
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 4.32 MiB
Packager        : Jerome Leclanche <jerome@leclan.ch>
Build Date      : Mon 26 Oct 2020 11:53:02 AM EET
Install Date    : Thu 25 Mar 2021 03:47:32 PM EET
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

I downgraded 'gjs' and 'js78' both of which were upgraded yersterday.

Still not working and when I try 'foliate /path/to/epub' nothing happens.

Any ideas are appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

parkour_peter

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Registered: 2020-04-28

Posts: 6

Re: foliate stopped opening epub files

Just a quick heads-up, foliate on github was also updated. Maybe that's the problem. I'm going to build it and check.

Edit: Hmm, either I did something wrong while building or that also doesn't work. The newest build also still says it is version 2.5, while the git tag is 2.6...

Edit2: I have no idea how I managed to start the old version of foliate instead of the newly build, but after uninstalling the package and ending any lingering foliate processes relaunching version 2.6.2 works. Can open epubs.

Last edited by parkour_peter (2021-03-25 21:23:03)

aliedtke

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Registered: 2018-11-18

Posts: 27

Re: foliate stopped opening epub files

Can confirm. Had the same issue (was only able to view library, but unable to open epub files)
Rebuild from git src helped - everything is working again now.