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Calibre will not install - germaineman - 30th December 2016

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 ??


RE: Calibre will not install - AJSlye - 30th December 2016

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


RE: Calibre will not install - jrasmussen - 31st December 2016

(30th December 2016, 19:03)germaineman Wrote: 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.


RE: Calibre will not install - AJSlye - 31st December 2016

(31st December 2016, 0:21)s.jrasmussen Wrote:
(30th December 2016, 19:03)germaineman Wrote: 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.


RE: Calibre will not install - kdemeoz - 31st December 2016

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.


RE: Calibre will not install - AJSlye - 31st December 2016

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


RE: Calibre will not install - germaineman - 31st December 2016

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


RE: Calibre will not install - Zelator57 - 1st January 2017

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


RE: Calibre will not install - kdemeoz - 2nd January 2017

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.


RE: Calibre will not install - jeffneedle - 13th June 2017

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