Calibre is an e-book library manager. One of its notable features is the conversion between various e-book formats. Its fast development cycle prevent the use of apt repositories to install it. This guide describes how to install Calibre and set up a auto-update cron task.
This howto is tested on:
- Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine
This howto is tested with these versions of the software:
- 4.12.0
Installation
Install the software:
sudo -v \
&& command wget --no-verbose --output-document=- \
'https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh' \
| sudo sh '/dev/stdin'
Install a anacron task to automatically update Calibre when new versions are available:
sudo -v && sudo tee '/etc/cron.daily/calibre-update' \
<<< '#!/bin/bash
# Calibre auto-updater script.
# Check if calibre is present on the system.
type "calibre" &>"/dev/null" \
|| exit 1
# Detect current version and newest version number.
newestVersion="$(wget \
--no-check-certificate --quiet --output-document=- \
"https://code.calibre-ebook.com/latest")"
# Return a version without trailing ".0".
# currentVersion="$(calibre --version \
# | sed -e '\''s/^.* \([.0-9]*\))$/\1/'\'')"
currentVersion="$(grep "^[ ]*CALIBRE_VERSION = " \
"/opt/calibre/resources/content-server/index-generated.html" \
| cut --delimiter='\''"'\'' --fields=2)"
# Update calibre if a newer version is available.
# May generate false positives when only one version number end by ".0"
if dpkg --compare-versions "${currentVersion}" "lt" "${newestVersion}"; then
wget --quiet --output-document=- \
"https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh" \
| sh "/dev/stdin"
fi
'
Set the executable bit on the created cron task:
sudo chmod +x '/etc/cron.daily/calibre-update'
Bibliography
Thanks
- Thanks to Calibre (en) developers.
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