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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

http://www.fbreader.org/about.php

This is a reader for ebooks. I've uploaded it here: fbreader-0.12.8.pet or here. (1833kbytes).

It also needs liblinebreak.so.1, which is available from Aragon's .pet here.

To run, Menu->Document->E-book reader

Links to ebook sites here:

http://www.fbreader.org/ebooklinks.php

N.B. This is the latest beta version

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

Uploaded v0.8.17.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

Uploaded v0.10.5.

dawnsboy · Posted: Sat 21 Mar 2009, 00:08 Post subject:

This pet package contains /usr/share/FBReader and /usr/share/zlibrary folders but lacks an executable file. IE FBReader. How is one to execute the program without the proper executable?

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 737

FBReader can be installed from the program's site (there's a binary archive)
needs also liblinebreak

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

I'm flabbergasted! The pet installs /usr/bin/FBReader + /usr/lib/linebreak.so.1.

dawnsboy · Posted: Sat 21 Mar 2009, 07:58 Post subject:

There is no /usr/bin/FBReader installed on my system. There is no /usr/bin/FBReader present in the .pet package that I downloaded. Rather odd.

The only files present in the .pet package are /usr/share/FBReader and /usr/share/zlibrary folders with contents. There are no other files included in the package.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

Hello dawnsboy,

woops! I just remembered the upload was quite sporadic...due to intermittent connection...bear with me & i'll re-upload 2morro.

cheers

dawnsboy · Posted: Sat 21 Mar 2009, 13:29 Post subject:

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

I've re-uploaded it.

hillside · Posted: Sat 21 Mar 2009, 20:43 Post subject:

Just a note to those who may run into this problem.

I'm running Puppy 4.0 and had to make links of libzltext.so.0.10 to libzltext.so.0.10.5 and libzlcore.so.0.10 to libzlcore.so.0.10.5 to get the reader to work.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6747 Location: hobart

Thanks Hillside,

I've modified the .pet to include the symlinks,

cheers

ravensrest · Posted: Sun 22 Mar 2009, 10:40 Post subject:

Your pet link is asking me for a password for puppylinux.asia?
BS

dawnsboy · Posted: Sun 22 Mar 2009, 12:47 Post subject:

DMcCunney · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894

Ah, thank you!

The older 0.8.17 release was running fine here in Puppy, but it's nice to have the newer one.

I think FBReader is the only application that actually uses the linebreak library added in the 0.10.x versions, it isn't included in the FBReader distro, and the only place I could find it was a source archive.

I have a large number of books in Plucker format (about 3,200), and a growing collection of Mobipocket titles, so it's nice to be able to read them in Puppy as well as on my PDA.
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Dennis