Ubuntu – When is the latest Calibre 3 going to be available in Ubuntu 16.04 in Software Center

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The current version which is 2.55.0 is not working for me and does not support my Pocketbook Inkpad 3 ebook reader and other ways of installation are too complicated for me.

Best Answer

Because of the fact that we can not change release policy inside Ubuntu, you probably will not get it from official Ubuntu xenial repositories.

But you can use one of the following methods to install the software:

  1. You can try to install calibre from Jonathon F's PPA.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/calibre
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calibre

    This will install v3.25 which is newer than v3.21 from Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS.

    It looks great:

    Calibre v.3.21

  2. Also can try to download latest version from official site:

    cd ~/Downloads
https://download.calibre-ebook.com/3.26.1/calibre-3.26.1-x86_64.txz
tar -xf calibre-3.26.1-x86_64.txz

    and launch it from here with

    ./calibre

  3. Other possibility is a Snap package.

    Currently no calibre snap-package exist. Calibre has very beautiful interface, but Snap currently ignores theming, so it will not look pretty.

    And I have doubts about the functionality of this option. Snap-version may not have access to USB-memory of the ebook-reader because of missed removable-media plug/interface.

    Also about Snap version I can cite Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) from " feature request - package calibre as snap app" bug-report 1707517 from 2017-07-30 at launchpad.net:

    There is already a cross-distro tarball that works without snap.

    Also IMHO snap is still a disaster and I'm very grateful Kovid doesn't use it. He's already rejected snap multiple times

    https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

    duplicate 1699620

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