calibre, an e-book reader’s best companion, has been upgraded to v. 0.6.5.

In keeping with my history of tips and tricks for installing calibre on Fedora, I offer the following, based on the install I just completed. I’m running Fedora 11, and this worked for me.

I had to install

poppler-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
poppler-qt4-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586
poppler-qt4-devel-0.10.7-2.fc11.i586

to get calibre to install and have full PDF support. Said packages are available from the Fedora repo.

The install was error-free, following the usual

wget -O- http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/calibre-0.6.5.tar.gz | tar xvz
cd calibre*
python setup.py build && sudo python setup.py install
sudo calibre_postinstall

Though you couldn’t tell it, I have completed about 90% of a Fedora RPM for calibre. It handles dependency checking well, and lays down the required files properly. The postinstall section of my RPM needs some work; there’s a nasty blow-up that I need to investigate.

Previous calibre posts, for your reading pleasure, can be had here.

-k-