Calibre E-book Reader for Linux Ubuntu (Calibre E-book Management Software). Install Calibre 2.48 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems. Calibre is a popular ebook reader which is also a powerful e-book management software. Calibre has many powerful features such as e-book viewer, reader and conversion tool. Calibre ebook reader software can work upon all the popular eBook formats, such as epub, cbz, mobi and fb2.
Calibre 2.48 is the latest version available of the Calibre E-book Reader and Management Software. Calibre 2.48 has been released with the below changes:
New Features:
- Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.
- DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing them.
- New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser)
Bug Fixes:
- Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created when compressing png images inside epub files
- Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images files/or file in use errors when compressing images
- Fix some icons not being themeable
- E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and super
- Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language such as Hebrew or Arabic
Install Calibre 2.48 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Calibre 2.48 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Derivatives Systems:
$ sudo -v && wget --no-check-certificate -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"
Once installed, open the Calibre ebook reader from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.
Calibre 2.48 can also be installed on Arch Linux and other Arch Linux derivatives. Run the following command in Terminal to install Calibre on Arch Linux systems, via AUR:
$ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt
$ sudo yaourt calibre