Calibre - Very nice eBook app

phabulosa · 2008-09-19 16:14:36

This is a wonderful OpenSource tool to deal with all kinds of eBooks and ebook reader devices.
I have no knowledge of python and I tried to build from the source (without writing my PKGBUILD), but it doesn't work.

Please go to the following link and help me write a PKGBUILD

http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_generic

MANY MANY thanks!

Shirakawasuna · 2008-09-28 08:36:51

I have this one very close to working.

# Contributor: Nick B <Shirakawasuna at gmail _dot_com>
pkgname=calibre
pkgver=0.4.86
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An e-book library management application."
arch=('i686')
url="http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/"
license=('GPL3')
makedepends=('setuptools' 'pil' 'pyqt')
depends=('python' 'qt')
source=(http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/calibre-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('8ffad2b2456d23f4c55efe6212bd222b')

build() {

cd $startdir/src/calibre-$pkgver
python setup.py build
python setup.py install --root $startdir/pkg

}

It errors out on the last step with this:

/bin/sh: calibre_postinstall: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 433, in <module>
    subprocess.check_call('calibre_postinstall', shell=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 462, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'calibre_postinstall' returned non-zero exit status 127

xen · 2008-09-28 10:10:52

Looks like a nice piece of software! Are portable eBook readers starting to gain popularity now?

morellik · 2008-09-29 07:58:32

Shirakawasuna wrote:

I have this one very close to working.
It errors out on the last step with this:

/bin/sh: calibre_postinstall: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 433, in <module>
    subprocess.check_call('calibre_postinstall', shell=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 462, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'calibre_postinstall' returned non-zero exit status 127

I receive the same message. I opened a ticket to the calibre developer site and I'm waiting for a response.

morellik · 2008-09-29 11:31:10

The problem was that the calibre_postinstall is installed, but in your_path/abs/local/calibre/pkg/usr/bin. So you have to set a PATH with the new value. But there are other problems related to that. When you are able to execute calibre_postinstall it search for a calibre installation and exits with errors.
I tried a lot of things but I'm unable to find something that works.

ould · 2008-09-29 12:09:42

I have written a PKGBUILD for this which works for me on my PC. I have two actually, one for the bzr version and one for the stable version. Mind you I haven't tried them for a few weeks but they were working fine at last check.

Here you go bzr first:

# Contributor Kevin Ould (crippler75@gmail.com)

pkgname=calibre-bzr
pkgver=1644
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="an e-book library manager"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('python' 'setuptools' 'python-mechanize' 'python-lxml' 'pil')
makedepends=('bzr')
conflicts=()
source=()
md5sums=()

_bzrtrunk=http://bzr.kovidgoyal.net/code/calibre/trunk
_bzrmod=calibre

build() {
  cd $srcdir

msg "Connecting to the server...."

  if [ ! -d ./$_bzrmod ]; then
    bzr branch $_bzrtrunk $_bzrmod -r $pkgver
  else
   cd $_bzrmod && bzr merge
  fi

msg "BZR checkout done or server timeout"
  msg "Starting make..."

  [ -d ./$_bzrmod-build ] && rm -fr ./$_bzrmod-build
  cp -r ./$_bzrmod ./$_bzrmod-build

  cd ./$_bzrmod-build
  python setup.py build
  python setup.py install --root=$pkgdir

  rm -rf $srcdir/$_bzrmod-build
}

Here is stable:

# Contributor: Kevin Ould (crippler75@gmail.com)

pkgname=calibre
pkgver=0.4.83
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="an e-book library manager"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('python' 'setuptools' 'python-mechanize' 'python-lxml' 'pil')
makedepends=()
conflicts=(calibre-bzr)
source=( https://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2 )
md5sums=()


build() {
        cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
        python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" || return 1
        }

For the stable version you will have to manually update the pkgver with whichever version you are trying to build. As you can see when I tested it the latest version was 0.4.83. The bzr version should grab the latest version automagically. Hope this helps!

UPDATE : I tried updating my PKGBUILD for latest stable and got the same issue as you guys posted above. 0.4.83 which my PKGBUILD was written for should still work though. :-) Looks like kovid made some changes which break my PKGBUILDS. Maybe bzr will still work.

Kevin

Last edited by ould (2008-09-29 12:24:18)

morellik · 2008-09-29 12:47:21

That's works for 0.4.83 that doesn't use calibre_postinstall. Now there is the 0.4.88 that use calibre_postinstall that causes problems.

ould · 2008-09-29 15:33:49

morellik wrote:

That's works for 0.4.83 that doesn't use calibre_postinstall. Now there is the 0.4.88 that use calibre_postinstall that causes problems.

Yeah i noticed that, do you know what this post_install actually does? It doesn't seem to do much by looking at it but I am not very knowledgable in python. Unless you need a feature in 0.4.88 then I would suggest using 0.4.83 as it seems to work fine for me. When I try and update the bzr version is gets through the build but I did see an error regarding postinstall but I am not at home so can't try it and see if it actually works though.

Kevin

foutrelis · 2008-09-29 22:48:44

I managed to make a working package for it. Feel free to test it and provide useful feedback.

(I won't be submitting it to the AUR, as I don't have much interest in it. If anyone else wants to do that, go ahead )

calibre-0.4.88-1.tar.gz

timetrap · 2008-09-30 00:48:20

I would also like to point out another ebook reader. reed.

reed is a console based ebook reader. It works wonders on text files. Here is the source repo.
http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/reed-5.4.tar.gz/

It looks like development has stopped, but it may be pretty close to feature complete. If you need a good command line ebook reader. Try this out.

morellik · 2008-09-30 07:27:21

foutrelis wrote:

I managed to make a working package for it. Feel free to test it and provide useful feedback.
(I won't be submitting it to the AUR, as I don't have much interest in it. If anyone else wants to do that, go ahead )
calibre-0.4.88-1.tar.gz

Yeah Seems to works fine. I'll put it on AUR. Thanks.

G_Syme · 2008-10-31 17:57:29

timetrap wrote:

I would also like to point out another ebook reader. reed.
reed is a console based ebook reader. It works wonders on text files. Here is the source repo.
http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/reed-5.4.tar.gz/

Just FYI, there's a package for reed in AUR. But thanks anyway for the additional mirror of the source.

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Calibre - Very nice eBook app

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