Calibre 3.30.0 Released, Install on Linux Mint, Debian, Deepin and Ubuntu Derivatives

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.


The latest release of calibre is 3.30.0. What's new.

• ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text.
• Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid issues with OneDrive auto-syncing calibre libraries
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version
• Add a tweak (in Preferences->Tweaks) to allow skipping network check on news download
• Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if some changes have been made.

How to Install Calibre 3.30.0 on Linux Mint, Debian, Deepin and Ubuntu Derivatives ?

Switch to root access :

sudo su

Run this script to installation :

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

After installation is completed, run calibre on terminal or you can search calibre on ubuntu dashboard , like this :

Note :

If you get an error about an untrusted certificate, that means your computer does not have any root certificates installed and so cannot download the installer securely. If you still want to proceed, pass the --no-check-certificate option to wget, like this:

sudo -v && wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

You must have xdg-utils, wget, xz-utils and python ≥ 2.6 installed on your system before running the installer.

You can uninstall calibre by running sudo calibre-uninstall. Alternately, simply deleting the installation directory will remove 99% of installed files.

You need GLIBC 2.17 or higher and libstdc++.so.6.0.17 (from gcc 4.7.0) or higher to run calibre

You can change the directory calibre is installed into from the default (/opt) like this:

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin install_dir=/opt

Change /opt above to whatever directory you want calibre automatically installed to.

You can also do an "isolated" install that only touches files inside the installation directory and does not need to be run as root, like this:

wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin install_dir=~/calibre-bin isolated=y