Comments on: Reading EBooks With Calibre https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: k8oylos https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-885 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:56:46 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-885 Hi,
Thanks for this package, it’s something i ‘ve been looking for!
I am trying to load this on 11.1 with kde 4.2.2
A bouncing cursor with some books loads for 10 seconds, then it goes away and no application loads.

I tried running through console and this is what i get
I am new to linux, so i don’t know what that means. All help appreciated!!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/calibre”, line 8, in
load_entry_point(‘calibre==0.5.6’, ‘gui_scripts’, ‘calibre’)()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 277, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 2180, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py”, line 1913, in load
entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), [‘__name__’])
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calibre/gui2/main.py”, line 27, in
from calibre.gui2.dialogs.scheduler import Scheduler
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calibre/gui2/dialogs/scheduler.py”, line 23, in
from calibre.gui2.dialogs.user_profiles import UserProfiles
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calibre/gui2/dialogs/user_profiles.py”, line 10, in
from calibre.gui2.dialogs.user_profiles_ui import Ui_Dialog
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calibre/gui2/dialogs/user_profiles_ui.py”, line 279, in
from calibre.gui2.widgets import BasicList
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calibre/gui2/widgets.py”, line 19, in
from calibre.utils.fontconfig import find_font_families
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/calibre/utils/fontconfig.py”, line 125, in
lib.FcPatternBuild.restype = POINTER(FcPattern)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 366, in __getattr__
func = self.__getitem__(name)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 371, in __getitem__
func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: /usr/bin/python: undefined symbol: FcPatternBuild

]]> By: roland https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-856 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:33:35 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-856 Never mind…I must be tired…I clicked on the “Customize” button this time and it let me check the python repo.

]]> By: roland https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-855 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:26:55 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-855 I tried the 1-click and yast hacked up about nothing providing python-beautiful-soup. I’m running 11.1 64-bit AMD. Can someone point me to the package or repository I need to add to find said package? I couldn’t find anything in yast which remotely resembled that name.

]]> By: Thomas Schraitle https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-818 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:28:30 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-818 Well, you can always look for EBooks that doesn’t have these restrictions. For music is hasn’t worked so far. The question is, if this will work for EBooks. I don’t know, the buyers will decide. In case you need EBooks without DRM, I can highly recommend feedbooks.com. They only have content which copyright is expired. If you are interested in, for example, Sherlock Holmes you will enjoy it.

]]> By: Jonas https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-816 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:20:45 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-816 Yeah, I do mean DRM (excuse the swear word…). And I did suspect that there was no readily available (or at all) solution for Linux as of now. Then again, for now I don’t need it either. It’s just one of those features that would be, sometimes, good to have in case you come across a publisher dead-set on the idea of drm.

]]> By: Thomas Schraitle https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-815 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:19:49 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-815 Cool, the author of the program wrote a commend! 🙂

Thanks for your comment. I know, that it is possible to reduce the size of the icons, but that’s not what I’ve meant. The icons are indeed smaller, but the text still remains the same. 🙂

At the moment I have to work on a laptop and if you are restricted to a smaller screen resolution you will notice the difference. 😉 It would make work much more easier if you could move the “View” button.

Your tip with the “v” key was very helpful. Although it is obvious, I never thinkg of that. 😉

But anyway, apart from this icon thing I really enjoy Calibre. Thanks for all your efforts and keep up the good work!

]]> By: kovidgoyal https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-814 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:40:45 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-814 Note that you can make the icons smaller (there’s a setting in the config dialog. And you can launch the viewer by pressing V

Thanks for the openSuse packages

]]> By: Thomas Schraitle https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-813 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:49:59 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-813 Hi Jonas.
with “encrypted” you mean DRM (digital rights management), right? As far as I know, this is not possible with Calibre. I don’t know of a solution for Linux.

]]> By: Jonas https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-811 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:56:25 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-811 Very nice! I know you’re not the author (or you would have said so…), but I thank you for bringing this very nice piece of software to my attention!

Just wondering if you (or anyone else reading this): is it possible to read e-books (using calibre or otherwise, without resorting to wine and/or virtualized windows) that are encrypted?

]]> By: Christopher M. Hobbs https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/01/reading-ebooks-with-calibre/#comment-807 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:21:42 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=449#comment-807 Thanks for packaging this! I’ve been using Calibre for a while now and it’s nice to see a native openSUSE 1-click!

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