Calibre will not install

[germaineman]

I try to install calibre with synaptic package manager It refuses with the message: could not apply changes fix broken packages first
I ran sudo apt-get install -f in Konsole
message: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

When I run the command sudo apt-get install calibre I am presented with a list of dependencies that are not going to be installed
python-pyqt5.qtwebkit
python-pyqt5.qtsvg
Does this mean that calibre is incompatible with Maui v2 ??

[AJSlye]

Yes, Qt is newer in Maui/Neon that what python-pyqt5-{etc} is compiled against.

[jrasmussen]

I try to install calibre with synaptic package manager It refuses with the message: could not apply changes fix broken packages first
I ran sudo apt-get install -f in Konsole
message: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

When I run the command sudo apt-get install calibre I am presented with a list of dependencies that are not going to be installed
python-pyqt5.qtwebkit
python-pyqt5.qtsvg
Does this mean that calibre is incompatible with Maui v2 ??

I used the binary install from their website https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux without issue on Maui v2.

[AJSlye]

I try to install calibre with synaptic package manager It refuses with the message: could not apply changes fix broken packages first
I ran sudo apt-get install -f in Konsole
message: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

When I run the command sudo apt-get install calibre I am presented with a list of dependencies that are not going to be installed
python-pyqt5.qtwebkit
python-pyqt5.qtsvg
Does this mean that calibre is incompatible with Maui v2 ??

I used the binary install from their website https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux without issue on Maui v2.

That's because it installs private versions of all it's dependencies along with it.
Also note that their binary installer is the recommended method of installation.

[kdemeoz]

Doing it direct from the calibre site is also how i've done it, for years. Worked wonderfully in Mint 17.x KDE4, & also in Maui - on both my computers.

[AJSlye]

Yes, and it has a built in updater as well.

[germaineman]

Thank all of you for your very quick replies.
Calibre installed without a hitch from the calibre site
For your information: there is an ebookreader installable from the repositories called FBreader. It is lightning fast but has less functionality compared with calibre

[Zelator57]

And thanks from me. There is no real substitute for Calibre.

[kdemeoz]

Further to my earlier post, & the other Calibre (i always struggle to use the lower-case c that its Dev uses] success-stories mentioned, i've just about finished the work i've done over the past couple of days on my Tower with a major partition table change & Maui clean-reinstallation. I used Aptik [another must-have pgm; great work TeeJee] to recreate my PPAs, installed packages & Debs, but there's a few pgms it misses, one of which is Calibre. Once again that script on his downloads-page was magic. And yes, Calibre itself is pretty awesome.

[jeffneedle]

Thanks so much! I was struggling with this. Problem solved.