Ebook Reader for Ubuntu

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 22:42, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> It's in the universe repository:
> $ apt-cache policy calibre
> calibre:
>  Installed: 0.7.18+dfsg-1
>  Candidate: 0.7.18+dfsg-1
>  Version table:
>  *** 0.7.18+dfsg-1 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386
> Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
>

That is a very outdated version. Install the latest 0.7.42 with this one-liner:
sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec
urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read();
main()"

That is taken right from the Calibre site:
http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

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