How to install Caliber on Ubuntu 16.04

Caliber

More and more users are switching from Windows to Ubuntu and this does not mean that they lose the programs that exist for Windows. Unlike. One of the programs that many readers will use or will be able to use in Ubuntu is Caliber, the popular ebook manager that is giving many users such good times.

Such is his success that Caliber is in the official Ubuntu repositories, so anyone can install Caliber on Ubuntu, but Will it bring everything we want? The truth is that in the last few months the Caliber team has “gotten up” a lot and in the last few months they have taken up to three or four new versions of Caliber.

Caliber 2.57 installation on Ubuntu 16.04

This is a problem for many users because each new version includes bug fixes and support for new eReaders. In Ubuntu 16.04 there is version 2.55 of Caliber, a fairly updated version but it is not the latest. Currently the latest version is 2.57, an interesting version because it supports the latest eReader from the Spanish brand BQ. The installation of this latest version is very simple because we only have to open the terminal and write the following lines of code:

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"

Once we press enter, the installation process will begin and its completion we will have the new version of Caliber, Caliber 2.57. There is another simple but less official process that goes through installing an auxiliary repository that contains the latest version of Caliber but it will not always be updated as in the previous method since it is the method proposed by the creator. Installation through a helper repository is done by opening a terminal and typing the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calibre

But as we have said, this method is not official and it doesn't always ensure the latest version of Caliber, something that happens quite often.


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  1.   Eugenio Fernandez Carrasco said

    Great program yes sir

  2.   Felipe said

    You can also run this script that does give you the latest version, Caliber is updated a lot !!
    https://github.com/nanopc/calibre-update

  3.   Miguel said

    Thanks for the link and for your selfless work, it is very useful.

  4.   Hyacinth said

    I use Mint Serena and I am new to linux; I'll tell you: I had to uninstall several applications and apparently, with some of them Caliber went (which for me is the best and only one).
    I went to my Software Manager and Caliber does not appear ?? !! But thanks to this great page (which has already gotten me out of more than ten troubles, is what being a newbie has to do, which is always screwing up) I have recovered it and it is more beautiful in appearance than the one I had, I have not yet thoroughly tested ... Funny thing, the settings I had in the missing, are maintained (background color and things like that).
    Thank you very much again for this magnificent job that you do, without which many of us would have returned to the "clutches" of Windows. By the way, I'm more and more happy with Mint every day.