calibre, the real deal in e-book management software, has been updated to version 0.6.0. In addition to support for the Kindle DX, there are numerous other enhancements, as detailed in the changelog.

Before you can explore the new shininess, you must build calibre. I’m running Fedora 11 currently; the instructions I posted here still pretty much apply.. A couple of nuances:

To get full PDF functionality, PoDoFo must be installed. These can be had from the Fedora 11 repository, just yum install them:

1. podofo-libs-0.7.0-2.fc11.i586
2. podofo-0.7.0-2.fc11.i586
3. podofo-devel-0.7.0-2.fc11.i586

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I think only the podofo-devel is a calibre requirement. The versions available from Fedora 11 were sufficiently current for calibre’s needs.

Next, you’ll need some later versions of sip, PyQt, and qt4; these are sufficiently current, and are available from the Fedora Rawhide repo:

1. sip-4.8.1-1.fc12.i586
2. sip-devel-4.8.1-1.fc12.i586
3. qt-4.5.2-3.fc12.i586
4. qt-x11-4.5.2-3.fc12.i586
5. qt-devel-4.5.2-3.fc12.i586
6. phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-11.fc12.i586
7. PyQt4-4.5.2-1.fc12.i586
8. PyQt4-devel-4.5.2-1.fc12.i586

Now, calibre should build and install, on F11 anyhow.

I haven’t had time to explore the shiny newness yet; more details to follow, as the quest begins.

-k-

calibre, kindle, fedora