Binary install

calibre has a binary installer that has been tested on a number of distributions on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 machines. To install, copy paste the following command into a terminal and press Enter:

sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()"
                        

Note

• You need GLIBC 2.10 or higher to run versions greater than 0.6.29. If you receive an error about GLIBC you can downgrade to an older version by getting the .tar.bz2 file for your architecture (32bit or 64bit) from sourceforge. Then delete the contents of /opt/calibre and extract the downloaded .tar.bz2 file into /opt/calibre.
• When running the command line utilities, they will segfault after completion. This can be ignored.
• You must have xdg-utils installed on your system before running the installer.

Source install

1. Make sure your system has python ≥ 2.6
2. Install the various dependencies listed below
3. Run the following commands in a terminal:

wget -O- http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src | tar xvz 
cd calibre*
sudo python setup.py install
                            

Note that if your distribution does not have a correctly compiled libunrar.so, ${app} will not support rar files. In order to compile ${app} successfully poppler headers must include XPdf headers. That is, poppler must have been configured with --enable-xpdf-headers. Also, some distributions have buggy libpng headers. See here for example.