Download and Install latest stable release of Calibre E-book Reader in Linux Ubuntu. How to install Calibre on Ubuntu 15.10, Calibre 14.04, Calibre 15.04 and Derivatives. Calibre 2.45 is the latest release of the Calibre Ebook management software. The latest release of the Calibre software has been released with the following changes:
New Features
- Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
- When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
- Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns
Bug Fixes
- PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.
- DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.
- Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder
- Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
- Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
- Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.
- Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded.
- Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
- Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
- When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
Improved news sources
- The Guardian and The Observer
Install Calibre on Ubuntu
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Calibre on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install calibre
You can also install Calibre via Ubuntu Software Center. Open Ubuntu Software Center and search for calibre and click on it to install.
Uninstall Calibre
If you wish to uninstall and remove Calibre, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get remove calibre
Once installed, you can start Calibre via Ubuntu Dash.
