Calibre 2.31.0 released, Install on Arch Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia
Calibre 2.31.0 is released, you can Install on Arch Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS 6, CentOS 5, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Mageia
Calibre is an open source e-book library management application designed for the 21th century, for the digital world that were are living in right now. It lets users to manipulate digital books in any way possible. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas.
Features at a glance
The software can download news from a sleuth of various sources, and comes with a content server for online access. Syncing ebooks to a supported mobile reader device is also possible with Calibre. E-book library management is the the main component of the application, displayed every time you open the application. From here, you can convert and organize e-books in a simple manner. It imports and exports many ebook formats, including ePub, MOBI, AZW, DOC, XML, etc. Just like any other software that can be extended via plugins, Calibre features an internal collection of add-ons, which provide support for editing metadata of ebooks, or add support for various ebook readers.
New features:
- E-book viewer: Make the search engine used for searching for selected text configurable (in the Miscellaneous section of the viewer preferences)
- E-book viewer: Fix dragging to select text with the mouse causing the page to slide sideways in paged mode, if the mouse leaves the text area.
- E-book viewer: Fix transitioning between full screen mode and normal mode sometimes causing current position to not be preserved.
- AZW3 Input: Ignore incorrect text encoding (incorrectly encoded bytes are now replaced by placeholders) instead of erroring out.
- Get Books: Update Legimi and CDP store plugins for website changes
- Fix Cybook Nolimbook not being detected in linux and OS X.
- DOCX Output: Fix internal hyperlinks being ignored when they point to a HTML file whoseelement has an id.
- Edit Book: Fix groups in replace template being interpreted backwards when search direction is up
- Searching: When search as you type is active, do not change automatically change focus to the book list when searching, unless the user presses Enter.
- Font subsetting: Fix subsetting removing some needed ligatures when subsetting some Arabic fonts
- Prevent errors when testing email sending even if stderr on the host machine is broken
Install Calibre 2.31.0 on Arch Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Fedora 22, Fedora 21, CentOS 6, CentOS 5, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 13.2, Mageia ;
For Arch Linux, Manjaro, ArchBang, Antergos and other Arch Linux derivative systems, Calibre is available via AUR, so, in order to install it, do:
$ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt
$ sudo yaourt calibre
For other Linux systems, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Elementary OS, Deepin, Peppermint, LXLE, Linux Lite, Debian, Robolinux, SparkyLinux, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia or OpenMandriva (and others), the developers have created an installation script that can be triggered via the below oneliner:
$ 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()”
