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Old 10-02-2024, 08:13 AM   #1
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Installing binary on Leap 15.6
Hello there

I´m trying to install Calibre 7.17 and beyond on Leap 15.6 and get the following
error message. As the result the reader window does not open.
Does anybody know what could be wrong, or to fix this ?

Many thanks in advance
Michael

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Checking downloaded file integrity...
Extracting files to /opt/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
Creating symlinks...
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-device to /usr/bin/ebook-device
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-meta to /usr/bin/ebook-meta
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-convert to /usr/bin/ebook-convert
Symlinking /opt/calibre/ebook-polish to /usr/bin/ebook-polish
Symlinking /opt/calibre/markdown-calibre to /usr/bin/markdown-calibre
Symlinking /opt/calibre/web2disk to /usr/bin/web2disk
Symlinking /opt/calibre/calibre-server to /usr/bin/calibre-server
Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrf2lrs to /usr/bin/lrf2lrs
Symlinking /opt/calibre/lrs2lrf to /usr/bin/lrs2lrf
Symlinking /op
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Old 10-02-2024, 08:42 AM   #2
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Your OS is too old, update or stay with calibre 7.15 until you can.
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Old 10-02-2024, 08:55 AM   #3
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Hello kovi

If have just upgraded my openSuSE 15.5 to the latest 15.6, because of the outdated glib.
Now i don´t get the error message from before, but instead this new one
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That error means the version of freetype on your system is too old, it lacks support for colrv1 fonts wich chromium and hence qt webengine require. So as I said stick with calibre 7.15 until you can update your system.
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Old 10-02-2024, 11:54 AM   #5
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OK, bad luck ...
Thank you for your work and your time, I really appreciate it, eBook wouldn't work for me
without your work ! So i hope i can stay a while on 7.16

Greetings, Michael
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The flatpak from flathub should include all dependencies without you needing to jump to Tumbleweed.
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The flatpak from flathub should include all dependencies without you needing to jump to Tumbleweed.
Thank you, but as long it works it works for me
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Thank you, but as long it works it works for me
But you do miss out on some fixes after 7.15 was released.
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Oddly with Suse Tumbleweed, I got the same libfreetype.so error when updating to calibre 7.19. I located the libfreetype install in /usr/lib64 and while a link for libfreetype.so.6 existed, one for libfreetype.so did not. I used

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cp -P libfreetype.so.6 libfreetype.so
to copy the libfreetype.so.6 link to libfreetype.so. This required elevation.

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lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        21 Oct 11  2023 libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.20.1
After that link was created, calibre's install went without issue.

A test on Debian 12 Bookworm gave much the same result except the link was in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Ditto for a Linux Mint 22 & Ubuntu 24.04 while Fedora 40 used /usr/lib64. NixOS was it's usual mess needing multiple installs. After I got calibre 7.19 installed, I removed the NixOS VM.

Edit: I also tried to change libfreetype.so in the linux-installer.sh to libfreetype.so.6 and the install went without error even where I removed the libfreetype.so link. Not sure if this would have any effect on running calibre though it did seem to come up okay but I did not do anything else.
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Old 10-03-2024, 05:15 AM   #10
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I solved the Problem for me by adding the M17N Repository to my System .
This installs the freetype6 Version 2.13, which is Perfect !

https://software.opensuse.org/downlo...6&project=M17N
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The downloaded script is fixed

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A test on Debian 12 Bookworm gave much the same result except the link was in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Ditto for a Linux Mint 22 & Ubuntu 24.04 while Fedora 40 used /usr/lib64. NixOS was it's usual mess needing multiple installs. After I got calibre 7.19 installed, I removed the NixOS VM.
Flatpak has bypassed this round of Calibre's library problems for me, other than being one point release behind (v7.18) as of this writing: no problems on either Tumbeweed or Debian stable.
(and that was user error: I was runing flatpak update with the wrong login.)
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