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soniabu · Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 162 Location: Paris

Hello everybody.
With my Biobnicpup64 I wanted to update Calibre to version 4.1.0. I join the shot; as you can see after launching Calibre from the terminal,
the terminal message appears in the shot.
Despite that message, however, Calibre installs equally and with
a message of good purpose,
but when I re-launch Calibre it does not start
and there is no way of starting it,
I am worried because I have so many books memorized and I would like to keep them.
Can anyone help me?
thanks
sonia

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4476 Location: holland

Hi soniabu,

Try:

williams2 · Joined: 14 Dec 2018 Posts: 337

The XDG_RUNTIME_DIR message is unimportant.

If you want, you can put this in the file /etc/profile or /etc/profile.local

williams2 · Joined: 14 Dec 2018 Posts: 337

version 4.1.0 seems to stop with a segfault error.

A segfault sometimes means that some of the library files are incompatible.

And version 4.1.0 also does not want to run as root.

I am running version 3.40.1.
It is happy running as root,
and does not segfault.

You can download Calibre packages here:
https://download.calibre-ebook.com/
You can copy the .txz file somewhere,
right click and select Uextract to uzip it.
You can rename the directory.
Click calibre in the directory to run it.

That is, the extracted directory should just run, no need to install.
To uninstall, just delete the directory.

If you keep your Calibre Library files that are in /root,
all your books should still be there and work ok.

In other words, it should be easy to reinstall an older version.

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13969 Location: S.C. USA

Tried as williams2 suggests.

Used UExtract to extract the contents of the calibre-4.1.0-x86_64.txz.
It makes a directory of the extracted contents.
calibre-4.1.0-x86_64.txz.extracted

That way seems to work for me.
I notice the Uextracted calibre-4.1.0-x86_64.txz, makes a directory that comes with what seems to be, a lot, if not all, needed dependency files.

To do a little better install.
Take the calibre-4.1.0-x86_64.txz.extracted directory and put it in /opt
If you want to you can rename it calibre.
Take the calibre file that you find inside calibre-4.1.0-x86_64.txz.extracted directory, drag and drop it to the desktop.
Now you have calibre installed in /opt
A calibre icon, on the desktop to click on, to start calibre.

soniabu · Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 162 Location: Paris

Well guys, thanks to everyone.
To be careful, I will follow all the advice in order to understand what happened.
sonia

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4476 Location: holland

williams2 · Joined: 14 Dec 2018 Posts: 337

I did try sudo calibre. with 4.1.0

The calibre library gui runs,
but I couldn't view the epub instruction book.

Running ebook-viewer in a terminal:

soniabu · Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 162 Location: Paris

I installed the Calibre 3.21 / version which is in the PPM and therefore everything went smoothly.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I found all my books well preserved.
100 kisses for everyone
sonia

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4476 Location: holland

@soniabu, good that you got it working now !

williams2 · Joined: 14 Dec 2018 Posts: 337

ash, bash, sh and sudo have slightly different environments