Can calibre be installed on Vortexbox?

[ham]

It would be nice if my Vortexbox can also work as a ebook server. For example, to includ the popular ebook management software calibre.

[andrew]

No. calibre is an Xwindows GUI application. VortexBox does not have an Xwindows desktop.

[cphan]

Calibre appears to be adesktop app.

Although there is a web server component, it needs to be configurd with the desktop GUI.

If you have installed a GUI on your vortexbox, the it should be as easy as
yum clean all

yum update

yum install calibreThere is an active fedora build.

[ham]

Can you be more specific abt the GUI for vortexbox? I'm a complete newbie here. Thanks a lot!

[Ron Olsen]

See info.vortexbox.org/tiki-index.php?page=GUI (http://info.vortexbox.org/tiki-index.php?page=GUI) for info on how to install a GUI on VortexBox.

[SPC CHEESE]

Kind of an old thread, but I just decided I wanted to use Calibre's built-in server too. And of course I'm not going to leave my Windows machine w/dual GPU's and et cetera running to serve up eBooks; especially, when I have a perfectly good VortexBox running 24/7.

Here's what I did and it's utterly simple!

1.) yum clean all

2.) yum update

3.) yum install calibre

4.) calibre-server --daemonize --with-library /storage/calibre --username MyUsername --port MyPort --password MyPassword

Of course this could be expanded on a lot, but if you don't mind entering "calibre-server --daemonize --with-library /storage/calibre --username MyUsername --port MyPort --password MyPassword" at start up via PuTTY, then this is to simple for Calibre and VortexBox.

Moreover, I have Calibre installed on my Windows machine where I manage my eBooks. Then I just copy the contents of "C:\Users\Chris\Documents\Calibre Library" to "VortexBox/storage/calibre" whenever I make changes. A start up script would be nice, but my VortexBox runs for months at a time so, it's not a huge deal to me. Here's where I found the commands for Calibre: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/calibre-server.html

Now I have full access to my 100+ eBook library from anywhere and at anytime even on my BlackBerry. Just browse save and open with Kindle for BlackBerry. :)

Hope this helps, it's been working great for me!

[SPC CHEESE]

I got sick of manually running the command every time I reboot my VortexBox. So to have Calibre run at startup just add "calibre-server --daemonize --with-library /storage/calibre --username MyUsername --port MyPort --password MyPassword" to /usr/local/sbin/network_up.sh. Credit to this post: http://vortexbox.org/threads/2626-How-to-get-iPlayer-CGI-script-to-run-from-startup?p=15795&viewfull=1#post15795

Additionally, I now point my Windows Calibre to the folder on my VortexBox. By doing this whenever I make changes in Calibre on my Windows machine the changes are immediately reflected and updated on my VortexBox. The method in my previous post resulted in changes not reflecting till a reboot and other oddities.

Well, it's been almost a month and with the modifications reflected in this post Calibre and VortexBox play very well together!

[fatherwu]

Just wanted to chime in here and say default install no longer works. See the devs instructions here:

http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

Worked perfectly for me on my new install. The calibre-server --daemonize instructions still work, along with adding them to /usr/local/sbin.

[SPC CHEESE]

Did you just copy and paste from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux to install and then run /opt/calibre/calibre-server --daemonize --with-library....etc,...?

The only way I can get calibre to work is via yum install calibre. Just tried the devs instructions again and can't get it to run right. Had to revert back to yum install calibre which is calibre version 0.8.33 and works fine for just serving up eBooks.

[fatherwu]

The yum install did not work for me at all. I'm currently running off the devs directions. I guess each install is different.