Problem with Kobo Utilities plugin

[nerdy_knowledge]

Hi, I'm using the latest version of Calibre on a fully updated Fedora KDE Plasma. When I install Kobo Utilities, I obviously need to restart Calibre. But after a restart, and even after completely rebooting, I keep getting the same message:

calibre, version 7.13.0
ERROR: Must restart: You must restart calibre before you can configure the <b>Kobo Utilities</b> plugin

Obviously, restarting doesn´t help. Other plugins don´t have this issue; I only have it with Kobo Utilities and Kobo Annotations. I've been researching the problem online, but since there's only a very generic message, it's hard to find a solution online.

BTW, I have access to a Macbook, where the plugins work just fine.

[nerdy_knowledge]

I reinstalled Calibre not from the Fedora repository, but from the downloadpage instead. That solved the problem.

[ownedbycats]

Yeah, don't use Calibre from repository.

[WovenTales]

The issue is that the plugin is using a deprecated type name which has finally been removed in Python 3.12. If using the version on the Calibre download page (and its bundled Python 3.11) works for your personal system administration, great, use that since the community's hostile to native distro packaging. Otherwise, there's a patch posted in the plugin thread which works perfectly well.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by WovenTales

The issue is that the plugin is using a deprecated type name which has finally been removed in Python 3.12. If using the version on the Calibre download page (and its bundled Python 3.11) works for your personal system administration, great, use that since the community's hostile to native distro packaging. Otherwise, there's a patch posted in the plugin thread which works perfectly well.

The community is not so much hostile to distro packaging as the community is getting tired of people who try to use distro installs which are sloppily built and try to save space by not including all of calibre dependencies. The common advice is to install the official version from calibre's download page which oddly enough seems to fix the issues 99% of the time.

Also note that Linux makes up 4.6% of the installed calibre base (Windows is 80.4% and MacOS 15%) and yet Linux users contribute about ~30% (a quick count) of install issues and most of those complaints are from distro installs.

[nerdy_knowledge]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The community is not so much hostile to distro packaging as the community is getting tired of people who try to use distro installs which are sloppily built and try to save space by not including all of calibre dependencies.

I think this equals to the community being hostile to distro builds - which, with the explanation you've given, is completely understandable, btw. Anyway, my bad, I should've read the official pages before installing the distro build. Being rather new to Linux, coming from a Mac, I've learned my lesson now.