Sacha Chua - tag - calibre https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/calibre/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:46:21 GMT en-US daily 1 11ty Calibre and Qt 5.5 https://sachachua.com/blog/2016/01/calibre-qt-5-5/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:00:00 GMT geek linux https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=28588 A recent apt-get dist-upgrade resulted in the removal of calibre and calibre-bin from my system. I've been using Calibre to convert e-books from HTML and EPUB (some developer references, some fanfiction =) ) and copy them onto my Kindle.

It turned out that the Calibre packaged in Ubuntu required qtbase-abi-5-4-2 and my recent dist-upgrade installed Qt 5.5. I needed to upgrade to Calibre 2.49, which wasn't available on any of the PPAs I checked (despite instructions to the contrary).

Installing Calibre from the Calibre website made it work, though. In fact, the Calibre website says:

Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below.

I wasn't too keen on piping the output of a wget command to sudo , but a quick scan of the script didn't turn up anything suspicious. Anyway, now I can convert EPUBs to MOBIs and easily copy them onto my Kindle, yay!

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

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